Canada
to become a full surveillance state
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“Canada's
recent anti-terror bill may limit the right to free expression,
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic said. Last
week, Canada's House of Commons passed an anti-terror bill after
several attempts by the opposition to ban the legislation failed. The
bill gives Canadian intelligence services powers to monitor
suspicious social media accounts and share citizens' personal
information across government agencies.”
“As the
bill was pushed through the parliament, the government insisted the
new legislation was aimed at detecting terrorists, not bothering
law-abiding citizens. [...] The
Canadian opposition said the bill was dangerous and would not make
the country's citizens feel safer.”
“The
government introduced the bill in January in response to the
country's first domestic terror attacks in 2014, when, in October,
two people were killed in a series of shootings at the Canadian
National War Memorial in Ottawa. In March, thousands of Canadians
protested against the bill all across the country, saying it would
undermine basic democratic rights and freedoms.”
A
year ago, we received an interesting comment under the article
"Training"
societies in tolerating interceptions:
“It's
the exact same system attacking the privacy of Canadians. Behind the
lush privacy laws, our secret services have access to huge swaths of
what's happening in our lives and that should be disclosed, at the
very least.”
Looks
like Canada becomes rapidly a full surveillance state.
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