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2011Census’ Theatre of Fears

Do you know someone who completed the census out of fear of fine or imprisonment? Or someone having not completed it who feared it? No? Then ask: What does Harper government fear? Decision to transform...

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Canadian conservatives battling over the census… in USA

I wrote in July that the Conservative government’s decision to abolish the compulsory nature of the census’ long form probably originated from an observation of the recent controversies surrounding...

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Questions for Statisticians and Specialists in Quantitative Methods regarding...

In the wake of the decision on a application for judicial review form the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada Federal Court’s Justice Richard Boivin heard evidence and...

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A Quantitative Methods Professional Answers Us…

This is a response to previous post from a professional who wrote me, but do not wish to be identified for the moment: Quantitative methods professional The idea that a volunteer sample reduces the...

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Truthfulness of personal information as indicator of social morality?

Can the level of accuracy of personal information items be indicative of the moral virtue of the social system in which the information is used? This question came to me while I was doing some...

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Lecture on the right to accessible information

INVITATION Lecture by Catherine Roy Director General of the Centre de recherche et d’expérimentation sur l’inclusion numérique (Centre for research and experimentation in digital inclusion) on le droit...

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Autonomy, Surveillance and Democracy: A Few Ideas for the Twenty-First Century

Text derived from my presentation to the Citizen Forum on surveillance of communications organized by the Quebec caucus of the New Democratic Party Montreal, Notman House, Thursday, November 3, 2011...

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Winning against the “lawful access” bills: Two strategic intuitions

Are there actions we could start today in a decisive campaign against the adoption of so called “lawful access” bills by Canada? I came to answer “yes” while listening to a presentation by Antoine...

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“Lawful access” bill: journalists discovering being targeted

A sudden tug of war between the Charest government and journalists caused a shock wave the echoes of which have rippled through throughout the Canadian journalistic profession. A jolt that could help...

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Reading Notes : Cavoukian, Ann. A Primer on Metadata: Separating Fact from...

About: Cavoukian, Ann. A Primer on Metadata: Separating Fact from Fiction (Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada, 1973). Tweets from Privacy by Design (@embedprivacy) signaled the...

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