Apparently Ford said that the communnist Chinese are infiltrating our country, Canada, the U.S., everything, into our education system, into high-tech companies. That’s who we have to protect,”.
Seems like fear mongering for no reason at all right now when China isnt the only place who eavesdrops on personal information. As an aside, have to wonder if Ford is getting ready for a scandal to drop since this is an insane thing to say.
grathontolarsdatarod on
I wonder how he feels about all the “regulations” being brought in by jurisdictions everywhere that call for mandatory ID for use of computers, devices and the internet?
I’d like to year what he think on that.
(Hint, they aren’t good for democracy).
russ_nightlife on
I worked tangentially for the Ontario government in the area of government record keeping. The fact that he uses his cell phone for government business is absolutely a reason to make it subject to FOI requests. There’s just no two ways about it.
If I’m working for a government and take notes in a notebook that I brought to the office, those notes are still government records. It’s not that different.
Of course, Ford doesn’t know or care about provincial law. I mean, why would he, as king of Toronto?
MTL_Dude666 on
A politician is not supposed to use his/her personal phone for business call.
If he did, he kind of implicitly said “Ok, my personal phone can now be investigated.”
Man, Ford is really not the sharpest tool in…nah, he’s just an idiot!
retrool on
Doug of course knows this isn’t how it works – the government has experts and legal staff who review and redact actually sensitive info from these records that could cause privacy or security breaches as per the existing law
WillSRobs on
So basically there is something on his phone they would get him kicked out of office or worse. Otherwise why hide it.
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Apparently Ford said that the communnist Chinese are infiltrating our country, Canada, the U.S., everything, into our education system, into high-tech companies. That’s who we have to protect,”.
Seems like fear mongering for no reason at all right now when China isnt the only place who eavesdrops on personal information. As an aside, have to wonder if Ford is getting ready for a scandal to drop since this is an insane thing to say.
I wonder how he feels about all the “regulations” being brought in by jurisdictions everywhere that call for mandatory ID for use of computers, devices and the internet?
I’d like to year what he think on that.
(Hint, they aren’t good for democracy).
I worked tangentially for the Ontario government in the area of government record keeping. The fact that he uses his cell phone for government business is absolutely a reason to make it subject to FOI requests. There’s just no two ways about it.
If I’m working for a government and take notes in a notebook that I brought to the office, those notes are still government records. It’s not that different.
Of course, Ford doesn’t know or care about provincial law. I mean, why would he, as king of Toronto?
A politician is not supposed to use his/her personal phone for business call.
If he did, he kind of implicitly said “Ok, my personal phone can now be investigated.”
Man, Ford is really not the sharpest tool in…nah, he’s just an idiot!
Doug of course knows this isn’t how it works – the government has experts and legal staff who review and redact actually sensitive info from these records that could cause privacy or security breaches as per the existing law
So basically there is something on his phone they would get him kicked out of office or worse. Otherwise why hide it.