It’s funny, since they are fixated on framing China as a “mass surveillance” dystopia (and propagation of their so called social credit score) but there’s hypocrisy since they implement similar tactics in the Anglosphere (though less obvious) while China is openly flexing that.
Snowden can’t be called a conspiracy theorist as he showed evidence that the NSA is spying on everyone behind their backs (first, he managed to smuggle the intel out of his workplace which was difficult to execute) turning him into a whistleblower who’s now living in Russia.
The Canadian government want to join the surveillance club. Fortunately, we have privacy protections in our constitution, allowing the courts to step in and keep the government in place.
Our political parties can legally collect all the data they want on anyone.
Bill C-2, a border bill, failed. It had two sections 14 and 15 that basically gave the cops permission to demand any data from any company in the country about any customer. This included lawyers and doctors.
They are trying again with Bill C-22. It’s a little better but has parts that the courts will likely deem unlawful.
On the other hand, being part of the 5 eyes allows our government to bypass local laws about data collection.
Doesnt matter when the US doesnt abide by those laws. Globally everyone is using US spyware or hardware with back doors. Thats why everyone should be legally forced to use Linux. Windows is basically US spyware.
We need to kick out the U.S. however, they can’t be trusted to give us good intel, and can’t be trusted with good intel from the rest of us.
I remember hearing about this bill. I’m glad to hear that it failed