For example, Google may only have access to your location while you’re actively using Google Maps, unless you choose to give it access all the time. The same goes to your camera and microphone for apps like Instagram, where you control when those permissions are allowed.
Bill C-22 changes that.
The bill would allow the Canadian government to require electronic service providers to build and maintain technical capabilities that enables government entities to access data any time they want.
It'll force companies to collect and retain information regardless of a user’s privacy settings, while also prohibiting companies from disclosing it.
Practically, anyone who offers you an electronic service would be gagged from letting you know about it.
The bill also softly bans encryption, by forcing companies to decrypt all data for them. It's a massive breach against your privacy, but also incredibly reckless in weakening private corporations' data security.
The bill also requires service providers to retain metadata, like location history and communication records, for at least 12 months. They're already talking about extending to 36 months.
“Nothing to hide because you’re a law-abiding citizen?”
Maybe not for now, but maybe not in the future. Combined with the new hate speech laws, anything you said in the past can be held against you, even if it was prior to it being illegal.
This means the rules of engagement can be changed at any time, for any reason, while they have access to every little bit of information about you, your wife and your kids.
Big Brother is watching.
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