Canada - Embattled Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson used taxpayers' money to have her city hall office swept for listening devices last year, a practice borrowed from her predecessor and archrival, Michael Di Biase.Through a Freedom of Information request, residents Gino and Mary Ruffolo, former supporters turned Jackson critics, uncovered an invoice showing the mayor's office paid Protech Consult Services $2,730 for equipment and labour for "manual and electronic counter surveillance."
"It appears the taxpayer is paying for Jackson's office to be swept for bugs," Mary Ruffolo said yesterday. "What is going on? Why is the poor taxpayer paying for this?" (more)
"What is going on?"
Yellow journalism. Scandal-mongering. Sensationalism. This is not news.
"Why is the poor taxpayer paying for this?"
Inspections for illegal electronic surveillance (TSCM sweeps) are a generally-accepted security practice. Both governments and businesses routinely conduct inspections for electronic surveillance.
In local government, for example, inspections can prevent fraud in negotiations and bidding; saving taxpayers money.
Not ferreting out illegal electronic surveillance is just negligence.
Chapter 2 - The Opportunistic Smell Blood
Ursula Lebana has a $50 solution to Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson's political problems – and 2 cents worth of advice."People never believe it, but 90 per cent of the time, it's the person you trust the most," says Lebana, who opened Canada's first "spy shop" back in 1991 and can attest to the fact that Cold Wars are still being waged in offices, marriages and even babies' bedrooms around the world.
And for $50, the embattled Jackson, who spent $3,000 in taxpayers' money last year to have her office swept for listening devices, could have rented one of Lebana's do-it-yourself bug detectors.
Lebana has armed everyone from entrepreneurs to parents with electronic surveillance gadgets since she hung a few Bond posters on the walls of her Yonge St. Spy Tech store and created the first Teddy cam to help parents keep an eye on their child's nanny. (more)
If you even remotely think that "one of Lebana's do-it-yourself bug detectors" can help you, then you will definitely be interested in buying this book to go along with it.
