[kwlug-disc] (OT) Feb 6: CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy: Micheal Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association

[Paul Nijjar]

These lectures tend to be really good. I should probably let the
Watcamp people gush about them instead, but I couldn't resist.

- Paul


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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:30:42 -0500
From: Ian Goldberg <iang at cs.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Feb 6: CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy: Micheal Vonn, BC Civil
	Liberties Association

An announcement of the next talk in the CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy:
 
https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/speakers/20180206-Vonn

CSIS Bulk Data Collection and National Security Surveillance

Micheal Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association

February 6, 2018 2:00pm, in DC 1304

Abstract: Canadians arguably have a much better idea about what kinds of
mass surveillance activities are occurring among some of Canada's
intelligence partners in the "Five Eyes" than about what is occurring in
Canada. It is clear, for example, that the UK's security intelligence
has been collecting vast troves of government, commercial and
telecommunications records, but Canadian practices are relatively
unknown. A Canadian Federal Court ruling in 2016 found the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to have breached its duty of
candour to the court in failing, for over 10 years, to inform the court
that it was indefinitely retaining information on third parties
unrelated to threats to the security of Canada to add to its bulk data
holdings. This explosive ruling was delivered during the country's first
ever national security consultation, which resulted in a sweeping new
national security omnibus bill (C-59). This talk will outline how C-59
proposes to address bulk data collection by Canadian intelligence and
talk about the civil liberties implications of the new legal standards
and accountability mechanisms.

Bio: Micheal Vonn is a lawyer and has been the Policy Director of the
BCCLA since 2004. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of
British Columbia (UBC) in the Faculty of Law and in the School of
Library, Archival and Information Studies where she has taught civil
liberties and information ethics. She is a regular guest instructor for
UBC's College of Health Disciplines Interdisciplinary Elective in
HIV/AIDS Care. She has been honoured for her work in HIV/AIDS with both
an AccolAIDS Award and a Red Ribbon Award, and she is the recipient of
the 2015 Keith Sacr� Library Champion Award for support, guidance and
assistance given to the BC library community. Her publication credits
include the Birkbeck Law Review, Surveillance and Society, Journal of
Parliamentary and Political Law, and Case Western Reserve Journal of
International Law. Ms. Vonn is a frequent speaker on a variety of civil
liberties topics including privacy, national security, policing,
surveillance and free speech. She is currently a collaborator on Big
Data Surveillance, a multi-year research projected lead by Queens
University. She is an Advisory Board Member of Ryerson University's
Centre for Free Expression and an Advisory Board Member of Privacy
International.

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