Posts Tagged ‘surveillance’
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
Whoa Canada is a film by the young activists who brought us “Shit Harper Did” during the 2011 federal election. It’s a really unsettling tour through the Canadian security state, with great cameos by Edward Snowden, Pam Palmater & many others, all gathered together in one excellent compendium. Check out the phalanxes of cops and guns that the government will produce against a bunch of kids with cameras and giant inflatable eyeballs.
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Tags: Brigette DePape, C51, Canada, Cindy Blackstock, CSIS, Michael Geist, Pam Palmater, police, privacy, RCMP, Shit Harper Did, surveillance, terror threat, Whoa Canada
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
Edward Snowden made a surprise appearance at the TED 2014 main conference in Vancouver today. TED is calling it “Here’s how we take back the Internet.”
From a remote location in Russia he could remotely control a wheeled bot that allowed “him” to turn around and look at the audience.
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Tags: CSEC, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, internet freedom, NSA, police state, privacy, security state, surveillance, TED 2014, TED Vancouver, Tim Berners-Lee
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Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Entertaining little documentary on the NSA, narrated by Evangeline Lilly. “How the Government Tracks You: NSA Surveillance.”
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Tags: CIA, NSA, Obama, police state, prism, surveillance
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Saturday, November 17th, 2012
Very nice map of surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver, by the Vancouver Public Space Network.
Disturbing content aside, it’s a very attractive map.
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Tags: B.C., BC, Big Brother, British Columbia, cameras, Canada, Canadian, CCTV, map, surveillance, Vancouver, Vancouver Public Space Network
Posted in British Columbia, cities, politics, urban planning, Vancouver | 4 Comments »