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EVENT: Surveillance after Snowden: National Security and the Limits of Freedom of Expression
February 27, 2014
PEN Canada is sponsoring an event to discuss the status of state surveillance after the Edward Snowden releases. One of the panelists at the discussion is Political Scientist Ron Deibert whose research focuses on global security studies.
How should a democracy balance national security with freedom of expression? Are government programs that capture and analyse metadata, or acquire private information from foreign intelligence agencies, worth the loss of our rights to privacy and free speech?
Panelists:
Ron Deibert is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, and director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs.
Colin Freeze covers national security for the Globe and Mail and has reported extensively on the Communications Security Establishment Canada, the fast-growing federal surveillance agency that has surfaced in the Snowden leaks.
Wesley Wark is a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He served on the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on National Security for two terms, from 2005 to 2009.
Moderator:
Jesse Brown is a CBC journalist and a columnist for Toronto Life.
Friday, February 28, 2014
7:00 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library
Pay what you can, $10 suggested donation.
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