OpenMedia

OpenMedia

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Fighting for your digital privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right. Learn more and take action at www.openmedia.org.

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The private messaging app says the current version of the bill will make it leave 🇨🇦 rather than comply, blocking millions of users! #BillC22 is now at 2nd reading in the Senate. Once it clears this stage, it will move on to committee. This is our last chance to fix it: openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

openmedia.orgTell the Senate: Reform Bill C-22LAST CHANCE to fix #BillC22 surveillance powers that threaten Canadians' rights and privacy! Major companies and civil society groups are raising the alarm. Demand the Senate #ReformC22 now! 👉 https:/...

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I'm pretty sure @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social is on the no side of this. It needs to be stopped. Encryption backdoors will lead to government & police overreach and gives massive attack surfaces to criminals. Backdoored encryption is the same as no encryption.

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🇨🇦 #BillC22 is now at Senate and it threatens to break Canadian privacy and encryption for good! If enough of us speak up NOW, the Senate will act. Tell senators they need to reform the bill, sign the petition today: 👉 openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky thanks @eff.org for standing for privacy!

🇨🇦 #BillC22 is now at Senate and it threatens to break Canadian privacy and encryption for good! If enough of us speak up NOW, the Senate will act. Tell senators they need to reform the bill, sign the petition today: 👉 openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky thanks @eff.org for standing for privacy!

openmedia.orgTell the Senate: Reform Bill C-22LAST CHANCE to fix #BillC22 surveillance powers that threaten Canadians' rights and privacy! Major companies and civil society groups are raising the alarm. Demand the Senate #ReformC22 now! 👉 https:/...

The @cancivlib.bsky.social, @openmedia.org, and other privacy advocates are speaking out on the dangers of Bill C-22, which invites backdoors to encryption. If you’re Canadian, the Senate needs to hear from you now.

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I appreciate you so much Senator. I hope everyone has seen @openmedia.org’s contributions calling for part two to be repealed entirely. The surveillance capabilities are too broad. The European equivalent was struck down by the EU’s high court in 2014 for being a “gross invasion of privacy.”

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#CdnPoli #Canada #BillC22 KEEPING TALKING ABOUT THIS!

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Tell the Senate: Reform Bill C-22! - Protect encryption — don't break it! - Strip C-22's mass metadata retention - Reject secret ministerial orders 👉 openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

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Minister of Women @rechievaldez.bsky.social has not said a single word about this as her government’s legislation works its way through the Senate. The @liberalca.bsky.social are knowingly putting domestic violence victims in danger which seems to be a sport at this point for them. #cdnpoli

TODAY is Global Encryption Day! 🔐 Yet in 🇨🇦, #BillC22 could move to its final Senate committee to break encryption — forcing backdoors, mandating 6 months of metadata retention, and applying to WiFi, banks, health apps, and + ✍️ Tell the Senate REFORM C-22: openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

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What #BillC22 does ⚠️ Break encryption ⚠️ Force companies to build government backdoors ⚠️ Require 6 months of metadata collection ⚠️ Apply to WiFi, banks, devices, health apps @signal.org #google #apple #psiphon @mozilla.org have warned our Parliament! www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

theglobeandmail.comMessaging service Signal says minister’s changes to lawful access bill will not persuade it to stay in CanadaSignal and provider of web-browser Firefox say bill still poses threat to their users’ privacy

TODAY is Global Encryption Day! 🔐 Yet in 🇨🇦, #BillC22 could move to its final Senate committee to break encryption — forcing backdoors, mandating 6 months of metadata retention, and applying to WiFi, banks, health apps, and + ✍️ Tell the Senate REFORM C-22: openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

Encryption saves lives - we all need the right to communicate privately! • A survivor messaging a shelter • A refugee talking to family abroad • Someone looking up healthcare info about their own body Yet Bill C-22 puts all of us at risk in 🇨🇦! blog.chayn.co/encryption-s...

blog.chayn.coEncryption Saves Lives: The Hidden Costs of Bill C-22 for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in…The Canadian government is currently trying to pass the C-22 bill, a bill aimed at giving the law enforcement faster access to digital…

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Canadians: Bill C-22 threatens the privacy and security of all Canadians’ communications. This dangerous surveillance bill can still be fixed. @openmedia.org has a petition demanding the Canadian Senate defend our digital rights. (Petition hosted by OpenMedia; its privacy policy applies.)

action.openmedia.orgTell the Senate: Reform Bill C-22LAST CHANCE to fix #BillC22 surveillance powers that threaten Canadians' rights and privacy! Major companies and civil society groups are raising the alarm. Demand the Senate #ReformC22 now! 👉 https:/...

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#Canada #Canpoli #Politics #BillC22 #Tech #Privacy #Signal #Firefox please keep spreading the word about this bill and keep telling the senators to fix it!!!

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The private messaging app says the current version of the bill will make it leave 🇨🇦 rather than comply, blocking millions of users! #BillC22 is now at 2nd reading in the Senate. Once it clears this stage, it will move on to committee. This is our last chance to fix it: openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

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"Bill C-22 has passed first reading in the Senate—and if passed, threatens to break Canadian privacy for good. …gives the [govt] power to issue secret orders that force apps, messaging services, and providers to build govt backdoors into their systems — all without meaningful judicial oversight."

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The private messaging app says the current version of the bill will make it leave 🇨🇦 rather than comply, blocking millions of users! #BillC22 is now at 2nd reading in the Senate. Once it clears this stage, it will move on to committee. This is our last chance to fix it: openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

Tell the Senate: Reform surveillance #BillC22! @signal.org vice-president of strategy and global affairs, said amendments introduced by Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree to the bill don't go far enough to safeguard encryption or protect users’ privacy! www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

theglobeandmail.comMessaging service Signal says minister’s changes to lawful access bill will not persuade it to stay in CanadaSignal and provider of web-browser Firefox say bill still poses threat to their users’ privacy

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🇨🇦's National AI Council Must Include Civil Society! Orgs and experts are calling on the Government of #Canada to ensure civil society, Indigenous Peoples, and equity-seeking communities affected by #AI have meaningful and permanent representation in 🇨🇦's National AI Council: ✍️ aibyall-liapartous.ca

aibyall-liapartous.caCanada’s National AI Council Must Include Civil SocietyWe call on the Government of Canada to ensure civil society, Indigenous Peoples and equity-seeking communities by AI have meaningful and permanent representation in Canada’s National AI Council.

💥Here is what the letter is calling for: • Expand meaningful representation on the National AI Council • Create a permanent mechanism for civil-society participation • Make the Council’s work meaningfully transparent • Embed accountability into its work ✍️ + share: aibyall-liapartous.ca

aibyall-liapartous.caCanada’s National AI Council Must Include Civil SocietyWe call on the Government of Canada to ensure civil society, Indigenous Peoples and equity-seeking communities by AI have meaningful and permanent representation in Canada’s National AI Council.

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#Canada #Tech #Privacy #BillC22 #Canpoli #politics keep talking about this!!

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Tell the Senate: Reform surveillance #BillC22! They need to reform the bill and fix its dangerous #surveillance powers. Sign the petition today! 👉 openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky

"Before we decide who can enter, we should ask what we are requiring platforms to become," Isabella Wen writes on Canada's Bill C-34. She argues the bill misses the mark by focusing on age restrictions while profit-driven algorithms remain untouched! openmedia.org/article/item...

openmedia.orgWhat Would Online Safety Look Like If Young People Helped Design It?Isabella Wen, a University of Toronto student and content creator, examines youth perspectives on Bill C-34's age restrictions for social media. As an OpenMedia Youth Ambassador, they argue the bill i...

🇨🇦 can protect people without sacrificing #privacy! Let's build safer online spaces that protect users, privacy, and free expression. 💥 Tell your MP: Fix online platforms, don't ban or surveil users. Amend Bill C-34 today: openmedia.org/BillC34-bsky

openmedia.orgFix Bill C-34: No Ban. No Surveillance!Ban illegal harms, not young Canadians! 🇨🇦 #BillC34 should be amended to hold platforms accountable, protect privacy and free expression, and keep young people connected. Tell your MP to fix the bill:...

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Le glissement autoritaire qui se cache derrière la posture de Marc Carney. #PolCan #CndPoli

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Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over #BillC22! Psiphon has devised technologies, including a VPN, to evade censorship, as well as complex routing protocols, to allow people to access the internet without being tracked. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over #BillC22! Psiphon has devised technologies, including a VPN, to evade censorship, as well as complex routing protocols, to allow people to access the internet without being tracked. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

theglobeandmail.comToronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access billPsiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country

Local and international companies are warning about #BillC22: -Up to 6 months of mandatory metadata retention -It could force weakened #encryption or interception tools! -"Core provider" is undefined, and secret ministerial orders could hit non-core firms too progresschamber.org/resources/co...

progresschamber.orgTech industry to Canada: amend Bill C-2223 tech companies and organizations tell Canada's ministers that a backdoor for law enforcement is a backdoor for everyone. Amend Bill C-22 before it becomes law.

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