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Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System
October 29, 2009 – 7:12 am | No Comment
Mind Your Tweets: The CIA Social Networking Surveillance System

By Tom Burghardt
That social networking sites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter and their competitors can facilitate communication and information sharing amongst diverse groups and individuals is by now a cliché.
It should come as no …

Feds to give cops Internet-snooping powers –
June 18, 2009 – 2:58 pm | No Comment
Feds to give cops Internet-snooping powers –

By Janice Tibbetts

OTTAWA — Police will be given new powers to eavesdrop on Internet-based communications as part of a contentious government bill, to be announced Thursday, which Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan has said …

OPINION: Media failing multicultural societies – Comment By Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star
May 11, 2009 – 11:58 am | No Comment
OPINION: Media failing multicultural societies – Comment By Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star

By Haroon Siddiqui
As newspapers suffer steady declines in circulation, ad revenues and, therefore, profits, there’s much discussion about how consumers, especially the young, are abandoning this medium, principally because of the multiplicity of modern media …

Courts poked: tweets not sweet – Judges must act to avoid ‘Google mistrials’, By Robert Todd
April 24, 2009 – 3:44 pm | No Comment
Courts poked: tweets not sweet – Judges must act to avoid ‘Google mistrials’, By Robert Todd

By Robert Todd
Regional senior justices must immediately issue a practice direction to keep jurors from conducting their own research using new communications tools and avoid havoc recently seen in U.S. courts, says a Toronto criminal …