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The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill
An anonymous reader writes "Canada's proposed
anti-terrorism legislation is currently being debated in the
House of Commons, with the government already serving notice that it
plans to limit debate. Michael Geist argues that decision has enormous privacy consequences, since the bill
effectively creates a "total information awareness" approach that
represents a radical shift away from our traditional understanding
of public sector privacy protection. The bill permits information
sharing across government for an incredibly wide range of purposes,
most of which have nothing to do with terrorism and opens the door
to further disclosure "to any person, for any purpose." The
cumulative effect is to grant government near-total power to share
information for purposes that extend far beyond terrorism with few
safeguards or privacy protections."
So.. Uh.. Yeah. Its this letter.
I don't know how to say this, but you should get yourself tested.
Here in the US we've got a bad case of the conservative stupid and it looks like you've caught it to. If you're lucky you can stave off the stagnating wages, crumbling infrastructure, tyranny of the banking sector, and jingoistic warmongering.
Love, the USA
I actually did move to Canada after getting disgusted by REAL ID. I'm starting to think I should have moved to Uruguay.
You know, about 30 years ago I would think "If I had to leave the US, where would I go?" And one of the countries that always came up was Uruguay. Apparently I was quite prescient in my 20's.
Yeah, cause somebody cares about you "threatening" to move to Canada.
Excuse me, but yes we do, thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Canadians.