Canada is edging toward a social media ban for youth and children, but the cure might come with its own complications. Before we trade one harm for another, we need to ask harder questions. Read our latest 
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We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.
looked at 
's surveillance problems and said: hold our beer. #BillC22 is proposing far greater surveillance, and a permanent treasure of private Canadian data no other democracy demands.
It's wildly dangerous, and we need to shut it down, NOW!
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We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.#BillC22 in theory does not force "systemic vulnerabilities"; but gov can explicitly reinterpret all terms at will by regulation.
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We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.And here's the worst part: #BillC22 requires keeping 1 year of your metadata.
Who you called. Where you were. Which protest you attended. A comprehensive record of the life of every Canadian, ready for a warrant request from law enforcement, or a clever hacker.
The Lawful Access Privacy Risks: Unpacking Bill C-22's Expansive Metadata Retention Requirements - Michael Geist
Much of the discussion around the new lawful access bill (Bill C-22) has focused on provisions that improved upon Bill C-2, notably the decision to scrap the warrantless information demand power by requiring judicial oversight for access to subscriber information. Yet despite that improvement, there remain serious privacy concerns with the government's latest iteration of lawful access. Buried in the second half of Bill C-22 is a provision granting the government the power to require “core providers” to retain categories of metadata, including transmission data, for up to one year. This is mandatory metadata retention that would require telecom and electronic service providers to store information about the communications of all their users, regardless of whether those users are suspected of anything. It is one of the most privacy invasive tools a government can deploy and the international experience suggests that there are major privacy risks.
Michael Geist (www.michaelgeist.ca)
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We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen. goes further than US ever did. US law only covers telcos. #BillC22 covers messaging apps, cloud storage, online platforms. It may even cover phone and laptop hardware too.Ottawa Reboots Its Lawful Access Bill: What C-22 Fixes and What It Doesn’t
Some concerns have been addressed, but many remain — along with some new ones.
(robertdiab.substack.com)
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We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.That's not just more
state surveillance.In 2024, Chinese state hackers broke AT&T+Verizon through a similar backdoor. 1 mil+ people's data was compromised.
Coming soon to
through #BillC22.
Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only For The "Good Guys"
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
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We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.
It would force every messaging app, cloud service, internet provider and more that we use to build government backdoors into their infrastructure. Permanently.
Tell your MP to kill it now
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Cool contract alert!Cool contract alert!
OpenMedia is hiring a 3-month contractor for an urgent project to win Canadians real privacy rights from federal political parties.
This is a chance to grow a national coalition for privacy reform before the next federal election and before generative AI further impacts democratic trust.
Learn more and apply before April 1st: https://openmedia.bamboohr.com/careers/33
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The replacement for 2025's disastrous Bill C-2 is out - and just as broken!The replacement for 2025's disastrous Bill C-2 is out - and just as broken! Bill C-22 still gives the Public Safety Minister broad powers to issue secret orders to any electronic service provider in Canada.
It isn't safe for privacy or rights, and cannot pass like this. We stopped broken Bill C-2, and we can stop this bill too if enough of us speak up.
Stay tuned for more updates in the next week!
Ottawa Repackages Its Surveillance Backdoor in Bill C-22
OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. We create community-driven campaigns to engage, educate, and empower people to safeguard the Internet.
(openmedia.org)
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UPDATE: 🇨🇦's house just REFUSED to accept a Senate amendment that would put a sunset clause on PERMANENT immunity to privacy law for federal political parties!UPDATE:
's house just REFUSED to accept a Senate amendment that would put a sunset clause on PERMANENT immunity to privacy law for federal political parties!LPC, CPC, and NDP did not have the courage to defend their choice; only Elizabeth May spoke to the obvious issues in #BillC4.
This isn't the end of the line; we're working on a HUGE nation-wide campaign demanding real voter privacy law!
Sign the parliamentary petition here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7237
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If enough Canadians contact their local representatives, as well the Mark Carney's office this week, we might be spared from this authoritarian mass-surveillance measure called "Age Verification" in Canada.@controlc blog coming this week. we'll campaign on it when there's an actual proposal - right now they're hearing from their expert group and we can hope worst ideas will be discouraged.
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ALERT: 🇨🇦’s political parties are DAYS away from using Bill C-4 to PERMANENTLY exempt themselves from basic privacy law.ALERT:
’s political parties are DAYS away from using Bill C-4 to PERMANENTLY exempt themselves from basic privacy law. Now is the time to force the House to accept a key compromise proposed by the Senate: a 3 year sunset period, during which they must get privacy right.
Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! https://www.openmedia.org/C4Sunset-mtd
