{"id":143343,"date":"2015-02-03T21:41:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143343"},"modified":"2015-02-03T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:41:58","slug":"edward-snowden-speaks-toronto-students-urges-caution-new-terror-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/edward-snowden-speaks-toronto-students-urges-caution-new-terror-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden speaks to Toronto students, urges caution on new terror bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Former U.S. intelligence contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden says citizens of the world, including Canadians, should be \u201cextraordinarily cautious\u201d when their governments try to pass new laws under the guise of an increased threat of terrorism.<\/h5>\n<p>Legislation tabled last Friday would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service powers to actively disrupt threats, not just collect information about them.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden, who remains in Russia after leaking U.S. National Security Agency documents, says citizens of any country should have concerns about this type of legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say we should always be extraordinarily cautious when we see governments trying to set up a new secret police within their own countries,\u201d Snowden said Monday night during a video conference organized by Upper Canada College in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/edward-snowden-speaks-toronto-students-urges-caution-terror-013631537.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. intelligence contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden says citizens of the world, including Canadians, should be \u201cextraordinarily cautious\u201d when their governments try to pass new laws under the guise of an increased threat of terrorism. Legislation tabled last Friday would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service powers to actively disrupt threats, not just collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}