In light of yesterday’s attack on our military and parliamentary institution, we have to be very careful to discern and exercise discretion in giving up or forfeiting our constitutional and democratic rights to privacy. “A bill that lowers the bar for police to conduct digital surveillance and mine the protected online data of Canadians for an expanding number of reasons is disturbing.” I think it is probably common ground that we are willing to infringe upon the rights of war combatants but let’s not let this recent event lead us all over the precipice like a bunch of lemmings.
EDITORIAL: Online privacy should trump all with feds’ privacy bill C-13 – Saanich News.