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Canada is about to end private digital conversation — Bill C-22 (dontsurveil.me)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Apparently Palantir is orchestrating Canada’s legislation as well. Which means your leadership has taken dipshit lessons from ours.

And Palantir lobby money, probably.

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    • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    This is going to be challenged in the Courts. Many parts of this Bill is in violation of the Charter.

    Hopefully, Signal and others stay until the court case runs it's course.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    If it gets to the courts we're probably lost.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Section 8 of the Charter "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure"

    I've heard from experts that bulk collection of metadata violates section 8.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Retention of metadata may not even be considered a search or seizure, it's unclear to me how likely it is that it might be declared "reasonable", taking it to the supreme court would require many years of work during which irreparable harm would be done, and whichever parts of the law were struck down it's likely that others would stand — and every part of it is irredeemable.

    The whole bill is so blunt, crude, and stupid that I think there's hope that it might be somehow arranged that it gets stuck in committee until it's forgotten about.

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    • [–] 27 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Wrote my MP, thanks for the link

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    • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Here's the find your MP: https://dontsurveil.me/c22/mp/

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    We can pretend the internet is t dead, but the internet is dead.

    Thankfully the government can't force private communication to give up the keys to their encryption, so if you're willing to do it manually, this legislation does nothing except make you a p2p criminal. And allegedly I've been a p2p criminal since the 90s.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Thanks for the reminder to contact my MP! I will be sharing this with my friend group and intensely pressuring urging them to do likewise.

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