Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him – Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
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Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him – Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
https://thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-to-tap-your-phone-ottawa-might-let-him/
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Bill C-22 is a horrible incursion onto your privacy as a Canadian. It should be changed. It’s a 5-eyes compliance piece that is going to make things much worse for Canadians.
Not only will US get to have warrantless search, but new powers for Ministerial orders and very narrow definitions to qualify for any exemptions. This is not at all a good direction for Canadians.
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It would guarantee the CPC wins the next election in a landslide if they did this, and Carney is not nearly that stupid. He’s a lot of things but he isn’t a moron, and he knows there’s only so far you can push a boundary before it breaks. The CPC/Federal NDP parties would have a field day going off about it in every federal election for the foreseeable future.
I think they already have it. Our data centers are rather integrated and hop back and forth across our borders to facilitate sharing by US and Canadian authorities.
It’s going to get amended. The metadata stuff probably at least gets limited and the systemic venerability bit is going to be rewritten. From one of the lawyers who has been trying to fight this bill in Robert Diab;
>Minister Anandasangaree appears to be paying attention to the criticism. A senior ministry official told the Globe and Mail this week that the minister is “aware of misgivings about the bill as drafted and is open to amendments … not just on end-to-end-encryption, but on the entire legislation.”
>The most likely target for amendment is the bill’s definition of “systematic vulnerability.” As currently drafted, critics argue it does not clearly rule out orders that would require companies to build backdoors into encrypted systems. When the bill moves to clause-by-clause review at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, the definition is likely to be revised to make this more explicit. Several witnesses who appeared before the committee, including counsel for Meta, also suggested codifying a mechanism that would allow a company to suspend compliance with any order it believes crosses that line, pending judicial review. The committee may well take that up.
Edit: Also worth noting the house committee have already amended their meeting to add more witnesses tomorrow.
This is an insane violation of our sovereignty and right to privacy. How is this kind of breach even normalized and being touted as an acceptable practice?
Folks, Ottawa is feeling pressure due to public and expert backlash. I am a social studies teacher; this bill is on the defensive. Now is the time for us to really amp up efforts and put this bill into the shredder where it belongs.
Don’t let up on the pressure. Contact your MPs and Senators. Make some noise.
Resources:
Multiple groups have made easy to use tools for sending your MP and (other members of government) an email about rejecting this terrible legislation in its current form:
* The Internet Society’s tool: https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/keep-canada-protected/
* OpenMedia’s messaging tool: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
* ICLM’s messaging tool: https://iclmg.ca/stop-c-22/
There is now a petition against the metadata retention and encryption backdoor requirements of Bill C-22: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
I’d also recommend emailing Minister of Public Safety of Canada (Gary Anandasangaree: gary.anand@parl.gc.ca), and the Minister of Justice (Sean Fraser: sean.fraser@parl.gc.ca).
The CIA and NSA can already tap your phone and everything else, and you can bet your ass they do. That’s how the “Five Eyes” works: intelligence agencies are typically barred from surveilling their own people, so they just get the data from a “partner” agency outside the country which has no such restrictions.
Why would we even give that tyrant warrant free data, when our own government needs a warrant. This is a gross violation of our sorvinity.