Archive for June 17th, 2013

Government Secrecy and the Limits of Transparency

I appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss Secrecy and the Limits of Transparency. The full video is available on TVO’s website and a portion is available on YouTube.

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June 17, 2013 Comments are Disabled News Interviews, Tv / Radio
2007 “Phone: ‘Old-Fashioned’ Dialling” by Pieter Ouwerkerk. (CC BY-NC 2.0). https://flic.kr/p/24P5B1

TVO: Secrecy and the Limits of Transparency 

On The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO, I spoke about the collection of metadata on cellphone calls by Canadian security agencies and associated privacy issues.  

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The Trade Agreement That Cried Wolf: The Canada – EU Trade Agreement Timeline

The Canada – EU Trade Agreement was in the news last week with multiple reports on the likelihood of talks concluding within the next few days. Some reports said a deal was possible, British Prime Minister David Cameron said a deal is close, but by the end of the week Prime Minister Harper was saying that there was no deadline to conclude negotiations. While there is another report a deal may come today or tomorrow, if the past few years are any indication, we can expect continued speculation without a deal for many more months to come. A timeline of the talks for the past three years:

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Discussing Who is Watching the Watchers

I appeared on Gorilla Radio on CFUV, Victoria’s Campus Community Radio Station, to my post, Who is Watching the WatchersListen to the interview or download it  here.

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