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Wtf is wrong with these government people? We’re currently undergoing the single greatest period in Internet hacking and they’re debating this? Every day all I hear about now is this was hacked and that was compromised online, and these people want to weaken security for their citizens, for what? A couple big photo ops while risking the info of 40 million people. Not a good trade-off. Plus, making the companies store this data, sensitive info, just is asking for hackers to steal and exploit it. The companies won’t improve their security for the government. It’s not a profitable undertaking.
Cool, can’t wait for this to pass and I have to rent a server in Panama just to read my email.
If there is a company in Panama that offers services in Canada, that means for their Canadian customers they are keeping 6 months of metadata in an easily accessible server in Canada. If they aren’t, then Canada must IP block their services. VPN services that do not keep 6 months of your metadata also must be IP blocked.
The only way to get around this is to physically leave Canada.This includes the team behind Lemmy. Being Canadian, after this bill, if they aren’t logging the metadata of every single ping that reaches their website and making sure it is easily accessible, they are committing a crime.
When your VPS gets blocked get a new one.
No level of government has the time to play whack-a-mole. If they start blanket blocking IP ranges it will be too disruptive to legit traffic.
No level of government has the time to play whack-a-mole.
Hence why the likely outcome of this is that any website that originates outside of Canada will just be blocked, unless the company agrees to maintaining 6 months of metadata in Canada. They can just tell the ISPs to block any traffic outside of Canada and have a whitelist.
Whatever data that comes into Canada will have its metadata stored in easily accessable data centres.
They managed to do this with the Great Firewall of China, so don’t think that it isn’t possible.
I love how all western countries are like, see how bad China is with surveillance?, then do exactly the same thing.
I impatiently await all of the private information of the members of parliaments and their extended families being inadvertently released with quarterly updates.
I think this is Canada’s response to the US CLOUD Act and FISA 702. But, implied in this response is that Canada’s power system is uninterested in resolving the privacy issues that flow from those invasive pieces of US legislation as it relates to Canadians. Instead, it seems that the system has become interested or accustomed to access to this Canadian data, and wants it to continue with domestic legislation.
Ultimately, as we’ve seen with Salt Typhoon and other iterations of it, these types of indiscriminate legislation chips away at our collective rights, and makes the world less safe. With the recent news of the PHP vulnerabilities, and the eMudhra Certificate Security fiasco, it’s quite clear that building back doors to systems that have difficulty maintaining their front doors creates more instability and uncertainty.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2182863/health-data-cloud-servers-canada-us
https://www.recordinglaw.com/news/fisa-section-702-surveillance-lapse/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/php-cybersecurity-vulnerability-explainer-9.7392394
Serious question, how can regular people oppose this? The Liberals have basically a majority government, and seem dead set on pushing this through. The only thing I can think of is to encourage Canadian workers to organize and join their local working class organization, be it a union or their local NDP riding.
Hell, at this point The Communist Party sounds pretty good compared to Neoliberal alternatives.
