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Canada Isn’t Doing Its Part to Stop AI Government Surveillance, Citizen Lab Director Says: Financial Post

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/11/canada-isnt-doing-its-part-to-stop-ai-government-surveillance-citizen-lab-director-says-financial-post/

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Canada Isn't Doing Its Part to Stop AI Government Surveillance, Citizen Lab Director Says: Financial Post - The Citizen Lab

AI is becoming a buzzword among Canadian policymakers, but should there be more focus on regulation than innovation? In a new article, Citizen Lab director

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Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security of Bill C-8

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/10/submission-to-the-standing-committee-on-public-safety-and-national-security-of-bill-c-8/

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Submission to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security of Bill C-8 - The Citizen Lab

Canada’s Bill C-8 (formerly Bill C-26) is proposed cybersecurity legislation that would introduce broad information collection and sharing powers, including

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The Citizen Lab’s Submission to the UN on Universal Birth Registration and the Use of Digital Technologies

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/07/the-citizen-labs-submission-to-the-un-on-universal-birth-registration-and-the-use-of-digital-technologies/

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The Citizen Lab’s Submission to the UN on Universal Birth Registration and the Use of Digital Technologies - The Citizen Lab

In a submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Citizen Lab researchers warn of the dangerous rhetoric of “birth registration and certification as a prerequisite for other rights” and the risks digital ID infrastructure could pose to human rights.

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Canada’s Outdated Laws Leave Spyware Oversight Dangerously Weak

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/07/canadas-outdated-laws-leave-spyware-oversight-dangerously-weak/

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Canada’s Outdated Laws Leave Spyware Oversight Dangerously Weak - The Citizen Lab

In a new piece for Policy Options, senior research associate Kate Robertson and legal extern Song-Ly Tran discuss how outdated protections in Canada’s decades old wiretap laws fail to protect people in Canada from abuse of spyware technologies.

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Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/

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Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries - The Citizen Lab

Our preliminary analysis of Bill C-2 situates the legislation within the context of existing research by the Citizen Lab about two potential data-sharing treaties that are most relevant to the new proposed powers being introduced in Bill C-2: the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention (2AP) and the CLOUD Act. Both of which carry significant constitutional and human rights risks.

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