Policy wonk, photographer, Torontonian. Formerly @citizenlab. He/him/his. Find me at @caparsons@mastodon.social
Toronto, ON
Joined March 2008
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Don’t give more powers to CSE until it submits to effective review policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz…
In a professional update, I’ll be joining @IPCinfoprivacy as a Senior Technology and Policy Advisor in February. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to work with the excellent folks at the IPC, and to use my skills to advance the privacy interests of Ontarians!
For the past several weeks I’ve been slowly uploading rafts of 🇨🇦ATIPs about encryption, national security, lawful access, Huawei, export controls, and more to my website. You can find and download (most of) them at: christopher-parsons.com/reso…
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🔊We are thrilled to announce that applications for our June 2023 Fellowships are now OPEN! 🔊
Between now and February 2nd, we are looking for early-career technologists who want impact tech policy and help Congress address critical issues.
techcongress.io/blog/apply-n…
Lawyer Danilo Doneda, Champion for Brazilian Privacy and Data Protection Laws, Died at 52 www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/20…
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This @Concordia research project looked at privacy as it relates to central bank digital currency (#CBDC) projects and the conflicting views of key stakeholders: privacy-conscious digital currency users, data holders and law enforcement. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-an…
ALT Completed Contributions Program Projects for the 2021-22 cycle: Privacy design landscape for central bank digital currency. Jeremy Clark from Concordia University.
Feds eyeing repatriation of 19 Canadian women and children held in Syria nationalnewswatch.com/2022/1…
New third draft from NIST: SP 800-188 (Draft), De-Identifying Government Data Sets csrc.nist.gov/publications/d…
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds in Germany theregister.com/2022/11/30/o…
Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland theregister.com/2022/11/28/y…
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Supplementary Estimates (B), 2022-23 propose to increase CSE budget authority by $102 million, making total 2022-23 budget authority $930 million mstdn.ca/@billrobinson/10942…
Alberta’s ‘World Class’ University Risks Collapse, Says Expert thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/28/A…
A thoughtful 🧵 on Canada’s recently announced Indo-Pacific Strategy (Strategy itself available at: international.gc.ca/transpar…)
Canada's long-anticipated Indo-Pacific Strategy was released this past weekend. Below are some observations/questions I have after reading it 1/n
international.gc.ca/transpar…
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"The gov plans to provide further cybersecurity powers to the Communications Security Establishment.
But given that @cse_cst is impeding lawful review of its activities, we should hesitate before giving it more powers."
By @caparsons of @citizenlab. options-po.li/3Vu1LWc
Municipalities attack Doug Ford’s housing bill thestar.com/news/gta/2022/11…
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🧵 In June, The Netherlands announced it had detained a Russian spy, posing as a Brazilian just as he was about to start work for the ICC. Sent back to Brazil, he ended up sentenced to 15 years for using fraudulent documents. Russia now claims he's a drug dealer, not a spy...
'Weak link' Canada needs new law to face security threats: spy agency nationalpost.com/news/canada…
