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.
Archive for June 17th, 2013
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.
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:
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 Watchers. Listen to the interview or download it here.
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