This is not a Green Party event, but will be interesting for anyone concerned about water protection and the environment. WRGreens will have an information table at this event!
Doug Ford’s government for the developershas introduced a new disturbing piece of legislation. Bill 66 would allow developers to bypass important environmental protections and land use controls established under other…
This is not a Green Party event, but will be interesting for anyone concerned about water protection and the environment. WRGreens will have an information table at this event!
Doug Ford’s government for the developershas introduced a new disturbing piece of legislation. Bill 66 would allow developers to bypass important environmental protections and land use controls established under other…
Last week’s WRGreens PreNomination Social was a fabulous success.
WRGreens will be holding 2 nomination meetings. The first will be a combined meeting for Kitchener Centre and Waterloo. Today—Monday February 4th, 2019— is the last day to join the Green Party and be eligible to vote to choose which of these nominees will be the 2019 Green Party Candidate!
This is the lineup of 2019 GPC nominees for Kitchener Centre:
2019 Kitchener Centre Candidate Nominees: Ian Graham, Bob Jonkman, Mike MorriceIan Graham, Bob Jonkman and Mike Morrice discuss green issues at the WRGreens PreNomination Social
And here are the GPC candidate nominees for Waterloo.
2019 Waterloo Candidate Nominees: Robert Reid and Kirsten WrightRobert Reid and Kirsten Wright discuss green issues at the WRGreens PreNomination Social
Over the next month, each of the nominees will be asked to tell you a little bit about themselves here. We’ll also be publishing videos for each on the WRGreens YouTube page.
The Candidate Nomination will take place on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 7:00pm – 8:30pm.
You must live in the riding and attend the nomination meeting in person to vote.
I had the honor of delivering the closing keynote, after a roster of astounding speakers. It was a big challenge and I was pretty nervous, but on reviewing the saved livestream, I’m pretty proud of how it turned out.
Fridays for Future Climate Strike: Kitchener-Waterloo
This event is dedicated to building a youth voice to speak up for climate action in solidarity with Greta Thunberg and other young people across the world.
Join us on
Friday, February 1st
from 12.30 to 1:30pm
outside of MP Bardish Chagger’s office / Waterloo City Hall at 100 Regina Street in Uptown Waterloo.
The focus will be on youth, but all are welcome.
Kitchener-Waterloo Climate Save, RISE for Climate Waterloo, Divest Waterloo, and the local chapters of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and 350.org would like to facilitate and support youth climate strikes in our region … for their future.
Facebook provides a suite of turnkey app-building tools for Android that
are widely used among the most popular Google Play apps, with billions
of combined installs; naturally, these tools create incredibly
data-hungry defaults in the apps that incorporate them, so that even
before you do anything with an app, it has already snaffled up a titanic
amount of data, tied it into your Google Ad ID (which is recycled by
Facebook to join up data from different sources) and sent it to
Facebook.
Needless to say, the GDPR made these practices radioactively illegal,
but despite two years’ warning that the GDPR was coming into effect last
spring, Facebook dragged another six months out before updating its
tools, and these updates still have propagated to all the apps in Google
Play.
The data harvested from phones – including, for example, which Bible
verses you read using a King James Bible app, and which searches you
made on Kayak – is added to your “shadow profile”, and no one (outside of Facebook) knows for sure how that’s used.
You can practice a little self-defense, but it’s cumbersome: root your
phone and you can block all network traffic to *.facebook.com; you can
also reset your Ad ID and disaggregate the data coming off your phone.
I’ve had a poke around but can’t find a tool that resets the Ad ID every
10 seconds – please leave a comment if you know of one.
Frederike Kaltheuner and Christopher Weatherhead from Privacy International gave an outstanding talk on the subject at the Chaos Communications Congress in Leipzig last month; an accompanying paper gives more detail, including methods.
Kaltheuner and Weatherhead were able to gain insight into the apps’
behavior by rooting an Android phone and installing a man-in-the-middle
proxy that used forged certificates to intercept and decrypt data on its
way to Facebook. Ominously, none of the apps they tested used certificate pinning (let alone certificate transparency) to detect/prevent this kind of man-in-the-middle activity.
It’s not clear whether the same conduct is present in apps in Apple’s
App Store; Apple uses unique Ad IDs that are similar to Google/Android’s
and could be exploited in the same way. However, Apple’s DRM is
designed to make this kind of research much harder. I hope the Privacy
International researchers take a crack at it: perhaps they could use
simulated, cloud-based Ios devices used for developer testing.
This is the beginning of a big year for the Green Party in Waterloo Region! We’re gearing up to run a slate of strong candidates committed to putting sustainable policies at the forefront of the 2019 federal election.
Our first step is selecting our candidates. Join us for this social as we meet the candidate nominees for our Waterloo Region ridings. It looks like at least Waterloo and Kitchener-Centre will have contested nominations, which means members will choose which candidate represents them.
This will be a fun and social evening, including musical guests Sammy Duke and Yvonne & Rob. Donations to support the musicians and prepare for the campaigns will be welcome.
Not a Green Party member? You’re especially welcome! You can learn more about the Greens, our values and priorities. There will be an opportunity to sign up as a member in time to vote in the nominations starting March 6.
Looking forward to great conversations tonight!
Thursday, January 31st, 2019 7:00 – 9:00pm
at Fresh Ground ~ 256 King St E, Kitchener
Doug Ford’s government for the developershas introduced a new disturbing piece of legislation. Bill 66 would allow developers to bypass important environmental protections and land use controls established under other…
Last week’s WRGreens PreNomination Social was a fabulous success.
This is the beginning of a big year for the Green Party in Waterloo Region! We’re gearing up to run a slate of strong candidates committed to putting sustainable policies at the forefront of the 2019 federal election.