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🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP: https://openmedia.org/StopC22-mast #BillC22 #cdnpoli @OpenMediaOrg

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22

OpenMedia 5d ago

On the 13th of May, we'll be joining colleagues from the Internet Society and PACC-CCAP for a webinar to discuss everything wrong with #BillC22. Sign up and stay tuned!

https://pacc-ccap.ca/events/www-c22/

OpenMedia 5d ago

Feeling powerless in the face of everything?

Here's 15 things Apple ecosystem folk can do today to enhance your privacy!

https://lifehacker.com/tech/15-of-the-best-iphone-privacy-hacks-everyone-should-know

15 Privacy Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know

These privacy options reduce tracking, data collection, and unauthorized access on your iPhone.

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OpenMedia 6d ago

Sleevine 6d ago

⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except us. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand a platform Duty of Care now! 🇨🇦 https://openmedia.org/FightOnlineHarms-mtd @OpenMediaOrg

Fight Online Harms: Canada Needs a Duty of Care

⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except Canada. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand Duty of Care now! 🇨🇦 https://openmedia.org/FightOnlineHarms

OpenMedia 6d ago

Adam 6d ago

⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except us. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand a platform Duty of Care now!

🇨🇦 https://openmedia.org/FightOnlineHarms-mtd

@OpenMediaOrg

#tech #technology #news #Canada

Fight Online Harms: Canada Needs a Duty of Care

⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except Canada. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand Duty of Care now! 🇨🇦 https://openmedia.org/FightOnlineHarms

OpenMedia 6d ago

Jason Sadler Mar 24

RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116280702938241722

I emailed the bill’s sponsor (Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree) and my MP to oppose C-22. You can find the minister’s contact information here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/gary-anandasangaree(89449)#contact

OpenMedia Mar 24

Canada is edging toward a social media ban for youth and children, but the cure might come with its own complications. Before we trade one harm for another, we need to ask harder questions. Read our latest 👇
https://openmedia.org/article/item/social-media-ban-for-youth-and-children-protection-or-punishment

Social Media Ban for Youth and Children: Protection or Punishment?

Canada is edging toward a social media ban for youth and children, but the cure might come with its own complications.

OpenMedia Mar 24

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https://openmedia.org/summer-fellowship-2026

OpenMedia Summer Fellowship 2026: Next-Gen Policy Changemakers Wanted!

🌊 Ready to make waves with your next-gen insights? OpenMedia is looking for changemakers to explore the challenges and opportunities of AI together this summer. 🚀 Apply before April 19! https://openmedia.org/summer-fellowship-2026

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OpenMedia Mar 23

🇨🇦 looked at 🇺🇸's surveillance problems and said: hold our beer.

#BillC22 is proposing far greater surveillance, and a permanent treasure of private Canadian data no other democracy demands.

It's wildly dangerous, and we need to shut it down, NOW!
https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-mast.

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!

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OpenMedia Mar 23

#BillC22 in theory does not force "systemic vulnerabilities"; but gov can explicitly reinterpret all terms at will by regulation.

Hollow by design.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-warrantless-access-but-dangerous-backdoor-surveillance-risks-remains/

A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to Warrantless Access But Dangerous Backdoor Surveillance Risks Remain - Michael Geist

The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful access provisions in Bill C-2, a border measures bill that was the new government’s first piece of substantive legislation. The lawful access elements of the bill faced an immediate backlash given the inclusion of unprecedented rules permitting widespread warrantless access to personal information. Those rules were on very shaky constitutional ground and the government ultimately decided to hit the reset button on lawful access by proceeding with the border measures in a different bill. Lawful access never dies, however. Bill C-22 cover the two main aspects of lawful access: law enforcement access to personal information held by communication service providers such as ISPs and wireless providers and the development of surveillance and monitoring capabilities within Canadian networks. In fact, the bill is separated into two with the first half dealing with “timely access to data and information” and the second establishing the Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act (SAAIA).

Michael Geist