Can’t wait to be a criminal in my own country for protecting my privacy. Government can get fucked.
This government has already shown they don’t care about evidence, the environment, property rights, freedom of expression, freedom of protest, and the list goes on.
It’s time for a general strike until all of this fascist bullshit is repealed and these people step down from office.
If Proton or Signal leave the Canadian market because of this, I’m going to be so pissed.
This is such a fundamentally stupid idea in the first place. It proves the legislators are thoughtless morons on the subject.
Yes, lets compell ALL providers to create and maintain very desirable targets (dossiers of user’s personal data and all activity) and also compell access for the incompetent RCMP to get it whenever they like. Let’s also understand that Canada has already passed a law to make sure they can never be held responsible if they fail to properly protect that data on their end.
Oh don’t forget, they don’t mind at all if the providers give them MORE than they ask for, volunarily. Nothing weird about that, I’m sure that explicitly stated and intentionally placed soft spot will never be misused. They are going to take all this data, and shove it into an LLM and then god-knows-what.
I guess now I get serious about I2P and other options to move my activity off the surface web, given that VPNs will be pointless now. And so I need to think about what of my online activity that I can accept the government collecting, understanding that they WILL misuse it and fail to protect it.
I hope Proton goes big-brain and uses that ‘voluntary data’ loop-hole to pollute the data of whatever it is forced to share.
It’s not tinfoil to say that this is exactly what fascists would do. Like no matter the intention (which I obviously don’t fully buy), this is exactly what fascists would do. Why does “protecting” people always seem to look exactly like what fascists would do?
Disrespectful comment towards Canadians who have legitimate concerns with Gary Anandasangaree’s surveillance bill.
I’m waiting to discover if I will still have a VPN provider based on the interpreted definition of “service provider”. Any amount of mandatory logging and access is too tempting a target. It’s going to be open season for hackers as each company makes a slapdash (likely AI generated) logging system to comply.
This is a dumb idea and in a year everybody’s data could be everywhere and Carney’s response would be to pay Experian lifetime monitoring of citizen’s credit reports from our taxes.
Very dark day :(
If you want proof that the Bloc or Parti Québécois are failed parti : none have made a comment on it (JF Blanchet have written a barely noticeable tweet on shitter, 39 likes; 6 repost) but PSPP is opposing a high speed train that have major support in Quebec. They like opposing everything that is liberal but when it’s attacking basic liberties 🦗🦗🦗
Canada lost today.
Tinfoil hatters… Steven MacKinnon is such a douchebag. I noticed it when he was discussing on of the previous Canada Post strikes. Contemptuous piece of shit.
In bill c-22 service providers are now required to hold 6 months of meta data instead of a year thanks to an amendment. It’s likely this bill will be rubber stamped by the senate 😭
At least they put a provision that requires a warrant after the initial outcry.
Seems it won’t become law until sometime in the fall when the parl comes back. They’re going on break now.
We going to need to do a monthly reminder that bill c-22 exists to build up the opposition.
Doubt we’ll get it repealed until the NDP takes controlling power so we prolly shouldn’t waste our time using any such opposition lobbying this gov’t. Instead we should roll this opposition (people and rhetoric) into Avi’s toolbox.
Update the senate already did their first reading.
The corrupt politicians have every intention to ram this through without proper consultation and debate.
I would be happy if Avis Lewis talks about this issue though it’s important to attach this bill to the Carney Liberals record so people don’t forget who watered down their privacy.
Gary Anandasangaree introduced bill c-22
Avi has been talking about it since May
Sorry for the Xitter link:
He cross posts on mastodon.
Disgusting.
Winter is here.
