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“Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Vietnam’s long record of cracking down on online dissent sadly makes it a fitting host for the signing ceremony of the deeply flawed UN Convention against Cybercrime this weekend. Read more in this @thediplomat.com oped by @hrw's @deblbrown.bsky.social & me thediplomat.com/2025/10/un-t...

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The government needs to withdraw it's strong borders package in while:

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

🇨🇦 Le projet de loi C-8 de la Canada est de retour - jumeau du C-26. 👯‍♀️ Risques énormes pour le chiffrement + ordonnances secrètes. 🚨 Ne laissez pas #C8 passer à la hâte au Parlement. Dites à votre député·e de #CorrigerC8 ! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bs... @openmedia.org

Exciting week for @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social & @uocommonlaw.bsky.social Law & Tech! For those still in town after the conference (where I'll be speaking on the civil society panel), I'm hosting this on Oct 4—a space for more critical discussion of AI. RSVP to join here: tinyurl.com/criticalAIsalon

If passed in its current form, the federal government's cybersecurity bill poses a threat to privacy and, paradoxically, to cybersecurity.

“Agencies need to be willing to review automated decisions if there is a serious question about a decision”

In an unstable geopolitical environment, Canada's digital infrastructure is in the hands of just a few American companies. In a new CAMP discussion paper, we ask the question what a new path forward should look like. antimonopoly.ca/discussion-p...

"There can be no doubt that states are bound under the Genocide Convention, which Israel is violating, to take action now." HRW's Omar Shakir discusses this week's UN Commission of Inquiry report and the growing consensus among experts about Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza:

I was pleased to chat with @australia.theguardian.com team who actually looked at the Age Assurance trial data, finding racial & other biases of concern before the trial are still very evident in the trial's actual data (downplayed in the official summaries): www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

The Vancouver Police Board's handling of a complaint by BCCLA and Pivot regarding surveillance of Palestine solidarity protests failed on many substantive and procedural fronts.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Today I joined with 14 of my colleagues from 10 law schools across the country to send a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, and the other leaders in Parliament, expressing grave concerns about Bill C-2, and it's likely impact on privacy and cybersecurity:

Critical read, hitting home out the gates in the executive summary's clarion call of an opening: "Those of us broadly engaged in challenging corporate consolidation, economic injustice, tech oligarchy, and rising authoritarianism need to contend with the AI industry or we will lose the end game."

good first graf in times report on trump admin assault on civil society gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Alberta proposal for a new ID that combines driver's licensing, health and, somehow, a citizenship designation, sparks discrimination and privacy concerns

I want every single person who’s ever argued passionately that we need a law criminalizing hate speech to sit with this interview, and think about what this administration could accomplish with it.

Robert Diab explains some of the constitutional provacy challenges raised by Bill C-2

@MarioTrujillo.bsky.social presents the EFF Award for Protecting Americans’ Data to @Erie.bsky.social: “Erie Meyer has spent her career doing the real work of modernization and innovation inside government—by working to protect consumers and building a bench of deep technical and policy expertise.

Great post on CSE's significant growth with particular attention to it's expanded crime fighting role:

Mine was the first testimony in the inquiry on tackling online harms facing young people in New Zealand - you can watch it now here if you scroll back to the beginning: www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl...

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h... Here are my concluding paras:

Canada has been sharing intel with the US on traffickers in the Caribbean since 1993. Enhanced intel-sharing has been underway since 2024. If the Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities Act means anything, all sharing that might lead to extrajudicial killings must now cease.

The Alberta Minister of Education said CCLA was spreading false narratives when it said books like Handmaid's Tale would be pulled off school shelves under his book ban regime. Barely 2 weeks later.... ccla.org/fundamental-...

HRW is hiring an immigrant rights researcher focused on the US: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

Microsoft is declining to share key information with Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wide data protection laws www.computerweekly.com/news/3666298...

Stéphanie Marin and Boris Proulx in Le Devoir have a very good piece on the problems with the scope of the #lawfulaccess provisions of #BillC2. Here's an English translation: www-ledevoir-com.translate.goog/societe/just...

CCLA is intervening in a case challenging a new Waterloo by-law that would allow the eviction of encampment residents. Read more here. ccla.org/press-releas...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week targeting cashless bail. Lawmakers should be considering ways to preserve and strengthen pretrial justice reforms, not roll them back.

The "Stop Bill C-2!" webinar is tonight at 7pm ET! Register to join us on Zoom (where you can participate in the Q&A): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... or tune into the livestream on YouTube: youtube.com/live/g0DuDtd...

Wow this is going to be a whole lot of people to be sued or jailed or expelled

You can't ban encampments if no adequate alternatives exist ccla.org/press-releas... windsornewstoday.ca/chatham/news...

🚨STOP BILL C-2!🚨 Join the upcoming webinar on Aug. 27 to learn more about 🇨🇦's proposed "Strong Borders Act" that threatens privacy, migrant, refugee and human rights, and how we can work together to beat it! Register at: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Even the US-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is worried about C-2: "Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies." Please take action here to stop Bill C-2: iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/

Alberta has recently adopted a ministerial order that effectively bans from all school libraries books like George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Despite Alberta's claim to the contrary, this type of order is textbook censorship. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Watch journalist @alistairkitchen.bsky.social recount being detained for 12 hours, interrogated, his device searched at LAX in June, and later deported over his reporting. This is yet another sign that press freedom is under threat amid growing political repression and democratic decline in the US.

How should Canada regulate AI? We want to know what YOU think! Take our community survey and we'll deliver your thoughts straight to AI Minister Evan Solomon, and shape all our policy campaigning off your input! openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025

Does our work for your rights matter? Don't ask us - ask Centre for Free Expression Director @jameslturk.bsky.social! 👉 Give to our summer drive and power our fight today! openmedia.org/chip-in-summ...

President Donald Trump announced the deployment of US National Guard troops in Washington, DC, a move that is dangerous and unwarranted. As we have seen around the world, military takeover of local law enforcement is a harbinger of authoritarianism. Read more: https://bit.ly/3UpOmjK

Sacha Stone built his global online following off antivax & 5G conspiracies - but now he's established himself in the MAGA fringe, his love of Putin, and a 'sovereign micronation' plan are stirring up local fears. Read my new investigation with Alexander Beunder: www.fastcompany.com/91358928/the...

Today, @hrw.org released a report documenting growing isolation and pervasive censorship that internet users face in #Russia. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system in Gaza, turning aid distributions into regular bloodbaths.

A Senate investigation has so far found 510 human rights abuses in ICE detention centers since Jan 20, including deaths, physical & sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, overcrowding & unsanitary conditions, inadequate food & water, extreme temperatures, denial of legal access, & child separation

'judges and lawyers had not been informed [of IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost], as HMCTS management decided it would be "more likely to cause more harm than good"' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...