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Bill C-22 is being sold as a clean, lawful tool for police and intelligence agencies. Critics say it also builds a sturdier pipeline for mass metadata retention, surveillance backdoors, and foreign access to Canadian-held data.
The Carney government says it wants to modernize privacy law by tightening rules around data use, surveillance, and pricing practices. That sounds reassuring—until you remember governments and corporations tend to discover privacy right after they’ve already been mining it.