One year ago today we stopped at Crocodile bridge on the way to #nostrica
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Testing the ability to share nostr links on Facebook, to avoid Facebook's Canadian News sharing censorship...
An important precedent in Canada as of two Fridays ago, IP addresses should now be considered private, and police will need a warrant to obtain them!
Andrei Bykovets v. His Majesty the King (Alta.) (40269)
Constitutional law — Charter of Rights — Search and seizure — Investigation related to purchase of virtual gift cards with fraudulent credit card information — Police obtaining internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to locate residences — Whether reasonable expectation of privacy attaches to IP address — Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 8.
In September 2017, the police commenced an investigation related to the purchase of virtual gift cards with fraudulent credit card information. The police was told that the fraudulent online transactions used two IP addresses. The police obtained warrants to search the two residences associated with the IP addresses. The appellant was arrested and charged with 33 offences relating to the possession and use of third parties’ credit cards and personal identification documents, and firearms. The appellant filed a notice alleging the breach of his rights under s. 8 of the Charter as well as other rights. The trial judge found that it was not objectively reasonable to recognize a subjective expectation of privacy in an IP address used by an individual. She concluded that there was no breach of s. 8. The appellant was eventually convicted of 13 of the original 33 counts, which he appealed. The majority of the Court of Appeal of Alberta dismissed the appeal. It found that the trial judge correctly interpreted the scope of the law that governed her s. 8 analysis. The majority concluded that she applied the correct interpretation to her factual findings, which reveal no palpable or overriding error. Veldhuis J.A., dissenting, would have allowed the appeal and ordered a new trial. She found that the appellant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the IP addresses and that his s. 8 rights were violated.
Further reading:
https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/techlex/supreme-court-canada-rules-ip-addresses-attract-reasonable-expectation-privacy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/supreme-court-privacy-ipaddress-1.7130727
#privacy #cdnpoli
From my friend Christopher Parsons, Canada's national policing breaking pretty much every Canadian privacy law, as well as their own internal policies and procedures, collecting personal data on Canadians from dodgy and maybe even illegal sources:
The recent report from Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada/Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada, about the RCMP’s use of private tools to aggregate open source intelligence, is an important read for those interested in the restrictions that apply to federal government agencies’ collection of this information.
The OPC found that the RCMP:
* had sought to outsource its own legal accountabilities to a third-party vendor that aggregated information,
* was unable to demonstrate that their vendor was lawfully collecting Canadian residents’ personal information,
* operated in contravention to prior guarantees or agreements between the OPC and the RCMP,
* was relying on a deficient privacy impact assessment, and
* failed to adequately disclose to Canadian residents how information was being collected, with the effect of preventing them from understanding the activities that the RCMP was undertaking.
It is a breathtaking condemnation of the method by which the RCMP collected open source intelligence, and includes assertions that the agency is involved in activities that stand in contravention of PIPEDA and the Privacy Act, as well as its own internal processes and procedures.
#cdnpoli #privacy
Special report to Parliament: Investigation of the RCMP’s collection of open-source information under Project Wide Awake - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
As of Signal 7, you will be able to use a username instead of your phone number on Signal. You can be an early beta tester by installing Signal Beta and getting your username early:
https://support.signal.org/.../360007318471-Signal-Beta
Which VPS providers do you trust from a privacy & security perspective, and why?
GDPR because of their strong privacy laws?
I would suggest Canada is best out of the 5 eyes countries, as our spies aren't allowed the corporate / government collusion like the USA (US ClLOUD Act, US PATRIOT Act, MLATs) or the even scarier Australian AA bill. In Canada, lunanode and cacloud are the only two providers I know of that are Canadian owned and hosted on Canadian soil, are there any others?
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I just got back to Vancouver, where one of my developers got back up while I was gone. By coincidence, I clicked on Janis La Couvée's talk from 2010, "Set Theory and Human Relationships, the Importance of One" -- having just spent time with all my immediate family, including a few days of 13 of us under one roof -- this talk had more of an impact today as I come back to my bachelor pad than it did back then ... makes me think maybe it's time to revive this conference.
will make you think about the impact of your attendance to events of all shapes and sizes...
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Engaging critical thinkers in Vancouver Island with the goal of fostering innovation, sharing ideas and build relationships.
#Vancouver legend bought a pile of @Saifedean Ammous 's The Bitcoin Standard and is slowly releasing them in the local community book libraries. He puts a BullBitcoin.com sticker on each as well.
I've bought many and given them away as well.
You can buy it here: 
Amazon
Amazon
He does not qualify as a drama teacher even though he played one his whole life. 100% tax payer funded.
I once convinced Whit Diffie try PGP while we were lost in car is how old I am.
How do we solve the gap of who is messaging who?
A decade ago, the Conservative party (now run by Pierre Poilievre) passed a law that allows some American law enforcement agencies to arrest Canadians on Canadian soil. "the same power to enforce an act of Parliament as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police."
#cdnpoli
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