Policy wonk, photographer, Torontonian. Formerly @citizenlab. He/him/his. Find me at @caparsons@mastodon.social
Joined March 2008
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1 Dec 2022
Don’t give more powers to CSE until it submits to effective review policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz…
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16 Jan 2023
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!
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9 Dec 2022
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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9 Dec 2022
These documents, broadly, may help other academics and public policy wonks understand the various histories of some of these contentious--and still lively!--legislative and policy debates. As I have time, and resources, I hope to continue posting historical ATIPs.
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7 Dec 2022
🔊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…
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5 Dec 2022
Lawyer Danilo Doneda, Champion for Brazilian Privacy and Data Protection Laws, Died at 52 folha.uol.com.br/tec/2022/12…
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Christopher Parsons retweeted
5 Dec 2022
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.
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4 Dec 2022
Feds eyeing repatriation of 19 Canadian women and children held in Syria nationalnewswatch.com/2022/1…
1 Dec 2022
An important 🧵 that applies to newsrooms and beyond
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1 Dec 2022
New third draft from NIST: SP 800-188 (Draft), De-Identifying Government Data Sets csrc.nist.gov/publications/d…
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Christopher Parsons retweeted
29 Nov 2022
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…
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29 Nov 2022
Alberta’s ‘World Class’ University Risks Collapse, Says Expert thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/28/A…
29 Nov 2022
A thoughtful 🧵 on Canada’s recently announced Indo-Pacific Strategy (Strategy itself available at: international.gc.ca/transpar…)
29 Nov 2022
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
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29 Nov 2022
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29 Nov 2022
So some folks here were unhappy about a recent paper on ePrint that focuses on “constrained encryption” — with an application being key escrow systems that only work for “illegal content.” Here’s the paper.
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Christopher Parsons retweeted
28 Nov 2022
🧵 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...
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28 Nov 2022
'Weak link' Canada needs new law to face security threats: spy agency nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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