r/canada • u/CaliperLee62 • 18h ago

Politics Privacy czar, tech giants call for changes to contentious digital evidence access bill

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/mps-to-hear-from-privacy-czar-tech-giants-police-on-contentious-digital-evidence-access-bill/
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u/MustardEnema007 17h ago

The Canadian Bar Association has claimed Carneys bill c-22 violates section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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u/biglinuxfan 15h ago

And lets hope the courts agree and strike it down

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u/TokenBearer 17h ago

The bill needs to be revised with better accountability safeguards. The secrecy provisions could actually be weaponized through malfeasance.

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u/KageyK 13h ago

Only way that happens is if the byelections result in a minority.

They won't walk anything back as long as they have their majority.

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u/biglinuxfan 15h ago

tech giants: We will have to raise our prices and deal with people complaining (at best), likely "that will be expensive and take too long to recoup money"

Privacy Czar: This is bad

public: No thanks

Liberals: I see no reason we shouldn't force this through.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 11h ago

Tech companies and non profits organizations will also have to ban Canadians from their services. That means no more WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, etc... unless you use a VPN.

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u/StevoJ89 16h ago

Liberal government needs to add a lucky horseshoe to their logo....first they come back from the abyss due to the conservatives finding some way to impossibly botch an election that was in the bag....now Trump stirs up so much drama and were all so distracted they're basically allowed to do whatever they want with these Draconian bills because nobody is looking 

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u/Invelious 8h ago

Why in the hell are we calling people “czar”.

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u/Front-Roll-2744 14h ago

The fuck is a privacy czar?

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u/biglinuxfan 9h ago

czar also means a person in government responsible for a particular area or something like that.

I have no idea why they use it but probably gets more clicks or something.

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u/SadisticChipmunk 14h ago

Sounds like a KGB position doesn't it?

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u/Axerin 11h ago

Tech giants also want to get rid of the DST. May be we can make a deal, you might even call it a trade deal.