The Problem With Internet Traffic

Whether it is calling someone on your phone or online shopping on the computer, people are more connected than ever to the internet. However, a person might be oblivious to the fact that they are being watched using these technologies. The NSA (National Security Agency) is an intelligence organization for the U.S. to protect information systems and foreign intelligence information. Recently the NSA has been accused of invading personal privacy through web encryption, tracking, and using personal information for their own uses and without permission. The surveillance of the NSA produces unlawful invasion of privacy causing an unsecure nation.

As a Canadian in today’s society we believe we have a certain set of inalienable rights. One of those rights that seem to be at the forefront of the 2015 Canadian election is privacy. As Dr. Kent Roach and Dr. Craig Forcese state, “privacy is, in our society, the right to be left alone by the state.” The Conservative upbringing of Bill C-51 challenges the ideology around our right to be private, as well as our government’s role in the protection of Canada from threats of terrorism. The Harper government essentially, will increase their role in national security to keep a constant watchful eye on potentially harmful situations and end them before anyone is hurt or killed. If passed, the bill would allow the government to arrest anyone suspected of terrorism without that person even committing a crime. Furthermore, the language used in the bill is extremely vague and makes one question, where the line will be drawn? Will our basic rights to peaceful protest and free speech be affected? Unfortunately perhaps they will. One of the most concerning parts of the bill in regard to privacy is the fact that the government will now be able to access several sensitive documents about citizens from top agencies such as the Public Health Agency, Canadian Border Services Agency as well as the Canadian Border Services Agency. Privacy is changing in Canada. This is a landmark bill and as such it is creating quite a splash in the ongoing Canadian Election.

The schematic format of this paper is to provide a brief inquiry of Parliament’s response to the legislature, examine the issues surrounding oversight, and investigate the violations of constitutional rights. Although C-51 is divided into five parts, the following experts will examine privacy protection from parts one through four. These include, the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act, the Secure Air Travel Act, the Criminal Code, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act (Parliament of Canada, 2015).

Bill C-51 defines the security of Canada as needing an information sharing act. This act interferes with many aspects of the public as it expands the definition of security allowing the government to exploit an individual of their

The Internet powers our country. Not only do hundreds of millions of Americans use it daily, our government and states use it to do important national and international business. Our government already utilizes it to monitor the activity of its people. This monitoring has especially risen after events such as the Boston Bombing and the attacks of 9/11. The main reason that the government does this is to keep us safe. If the government puts more slack on this matter, then it will give a chance for terrorists to complete their objective. The normal person does not know how many terrorist attacks may have been stopped in the past years due to this surveillance, and how many lives it may have saved. Therefore, we cannot let our government halt

This essay will also include an anaisys of the claim Schneier is making and how he warrants the claim. Most americans have no idea of internet spying or just have negitivly it impacts us. Bruce Schneier is a renowned security technologist and author of Liars and Outliers. (Rottenberg and Winchell 55). Schneier’s insite on the topic of internet security gives him credibility to make such claims of government and big bsiness spying.

Surveillance and biopolitical governance are terms usually associated with the internal surveillance methods of the United States, especially in light of the Snowden NSA leaks. However, Canada has developed an elusive biopolitical national security policy that has both social and political consequences. In April 2004, the Canada’s federal government introduced its first national security legislation, Securing an Open Society: Canada’s National Security Policy (Bell 147). Discussions surrounding a national security agenda has expanded rapidly since the tragic events of 9/11. Canada has quoted $690 million in national security policy and strategy however, this only reflects a portion of the actual total amount of money put towards security and

Its purpose, as most Americans understand, is to stop any potential terrorist attacks in domestic America. However, people’s fear of terrorism has been exploited by the American leaders to allow them to eavesdrop on every innocent America. It is shockingly similar to that in 1984, except the massive surveillance in America today is larger and more dangerous because it’s on the internet - “where virtually everything is done”. The internet, where every human interaction is made and the most private data is created and stored, has become the very tool for American government to spy on its own citizens. In just thirty days at the beginning of this massive surveillance in 2013, the National Security Agency (NSA) had collected data on more than 97 billion emails and 127 billion phone calls around the

The major reason for what makes Canada’s newest anti-terrorism law so controversial is that it compromises the privacy of Canadians, by granting greater power

While the PRISM program which stands for personal Record information system Methodology targets suspicious foreigners using sites like Google and facebook, it is only supposed to pull Americans into the surveillance web if they are linked to those targets. A public interest research group that recently petitioned the supreme court to stop NSA collection of domestic telephone call data, hope to see the programs examined and struck down by the high court, which could consider the challenge as soon as the fall. A secret court, which “operates without anyone representing the other side,” sanctions the NSA programs, says Goitein. “There’s really no appeal”.

The bill includes legislation that is named the CLOUD Act. This act makes it much easier for the U.S. and its allies to receive information about very serious crimes and even terrorist threats on servers in other countries. Proponents of the act call it a huge step forward in global communication James Scott, a senior member at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, states, “The CLOUD Act can save lives, preserve international relations, empower law enforcement and ensure justice for citizens,” (Kelly). Opponents claim that the act makes it easier for maleficent governments to spy on their citizens and to steal Americans’ information. Once again, there are trade-offs. This act allows easier communication and data sharing between countries, but it also makes it easier for maleficent countries to steal that same

If this bill is kept the same, I believe that we need to put forth policy changes with transparency and give power to people to know when and where their personal information is being accessed and what is being done with that information. Just like a warrant on searching someone’s house, similar to what we talked about in class, police, government officials and especially ISPs should provide a reason for entrance into people’s private lives. I hope for the direction of this Bill to stay securely in the middle, rather than take a strong side, because as much as we need privacy in our lives, we also need to keep the well being of Canadians in mind. In this situation I believe that it is salient to maintain a healthy public sphere by keeping an open debate about this bill. We need put forth new policies to stop companies and government officials from creating a monopoly when it comes to access to personal information and privacy for all

the NSA expansive power to spy on Americans’ international email and telephone calls. But in

This is because the United states is a major trading partner for Canada. Therefore, there net neutrality laws will have some impacts on Canadian internet consumers, when it comes to trading packets across the border. An article by the Canadian Internet Registration (CIRA) discussed the potential impacts for Canadians the ‘Title II’ changes will have (Holland, 2017). Many of website and services Canadians use, have servers located in the United States, such as Netflix. Canadian ISPs will not throttle the traffic to the United States, the traffic eventually needs to travel along United States ISPs. These ISPs may choose to block or throttle the traffic going through them, and as mentioned before, the speed of the overall network connection is determined by the slowest speeds. This means that Canadians could have a direct impact on their internet experiences because of the net neutrality laws in the United States.

The U.S. Government has turned the Internet into something it was never intended to be: a system for spying on us in our most private moments. Out of control government