Privacy

Carney’s Privacy Revamp: A Soothing Promise to Canadians, or Just New Ways to Monetize Their Lives?

The Carney government says it wants to modernize privacy law by tightening rules around data use, surveillance, and pricing practices. That sounds reassuring—until you remember governments and corpo ...

Bill C-22: Canada’s ‘lawful access’ bill and the very convenient habit of making your data everyone’s problem

Bill C-22 is being sold as a clean, lawful tool for police and intelligence agencies. Critics say it also builds a sturdier pipeline for mass metadata retention, surveillance backdoors, and foreign ac ...

Bill C-36: Because Your Data Deserves a More Confusing and Less Secure Future!

Hold onto your data, folks, because the government is at it again! Bill C-36 promises a 'major overhaul' of federal privacy law, which, if history is any guide, means a whole lot of bureaucratic jargo ...