Tamir

@tamir_CA
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Tech & human rights lawyer | he/him
Director, Privacy, Surveillance & Technology Program, Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA)
Formerly: hrw.org | cippic.ca

The replacement for 2025's disastrous Bill C-2 is out - and just as broken! Bill C-22 still gives the Public Safety Minister broad powers to issue secret orders to any electronic service provider in Canada.

It isn't safe for privacy or rights, and cannot pass like this. We stopped broken Bill C-2, and we can stop this bill too if enough of us speak up.

Stay tuned for more updates in the next week!

https://openmedia.org/press/item/ottawa-repackages-its-surveillance-backdoor-in-bill-c-22

Ottawa Repackages Its Surveillance Backdoor in Bill C-22

Bill C-22 lays the groundwork for a Canadian surveillance state.

Newly introduced Bill C-22 includes a sweeping surveillance capabilities regime that will undermine privacy and create cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-lawful-access-bill-could-create-vulnerabilities-for-hackers-experts/

CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

404 Media
I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled
The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

The Guardian

UPDATE: ⚡Just hours after filing the complaint against X in Ireland, and sharing about it social media and on our website, we found that the previously faulty online forms misleading Trusted Flaggers had started being updated to reflect the correct English version!

It's evident:

🙏🏾 Laws like the #DSA are a powerful tool to reign in tech giants and make our online lives safer.

🙏🏾 Civil society organisations are playing a key role in the enforcement of EU’s digital rules by acting as watchdogs

"My company has moved to a four-day week – here’s why it works"

Diana Makarska is the chief financial officer at Peak, one of 200+ companies in the UK that has implemented a four-day week without reducing salary

Harper's BAZAAR

"Israel’s military has drawn up plans to reconquer Gaza in a bid to finally defeat Hamas, paving the way for a long-running occupation of the besieged enclave."

https://www.ft.com/content/40127b12-62e4-4f3f-8723-d1821332b0d6

Israel readies plans for occupation of Gaza

New military leadership, with far-right’s support, draws up drastically harsher proposal to destroy Hamas

Financial Times

🚨 #X, #Meta and other corporate social media have been in the news for scandal after scandal recently.

With X's owner, #ElonMusk now effectively a part of the US government under the #Trump administration, and Meta degrading their #ContentModeration policy, what should the #EU do next? 🤔

Read more to find out ⤵️
https://edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-are-going-rogue-here-is-what-europe-should-do-now/

Meta and X are going rogue. Here is what Europe should do now. - European Digital Rights (EDRi)

To solve the core problem, we have to curb the immense grip Big Tech has on our institutions and invest in independent digital alternatives.

European Digital Rights (EDRi)