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2026-08-12 13:56:06 UTC

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Political parties in 🇨🇦 aren’t subject to the same privacy rules as businesses and public bodies.
They can collect personal data, profile voters and even minors and buy information from data brokers:
https://openmedia.org/article/item/what-political-parties-can-collect-about-you-in-canada-and-how-we-can-fix-it

2026-08-12 13:52:34 UTC

UPDATE: After Alberta's data breach, orgs + experts sent an open letter to Premier Smith to bring Political Parties under #privacy law. We just received their form answer: They’re “exploring options”… 🙄
💥 But Albertans and all Canadians need solutions now! Email Your MP: https://openmedia.org/voter-privacy-2026-mtd
#cdnpoli
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2026-07-31 20:40:22 UTC

You shouldn’t have to choose between privacy measures you value. Help us fix Bill C-34! Last chance to share your thoughts! 👉 http://openmedia.org/digita-safety-survey-2026-mtd ❗ Survey closes Aug 2nd 🔗 Link in Bio
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2026-07-23 17:05:49 UTC

Nearly 4,700 of Canadians told us what they wanted from a modernized Privacy Act. We turned that into policy recommendations for the 2026 Review of Canada’s decades-old Privacy Act. Read our full report now! 👉 https://openmedia.org/article/item/openmedias-survey-report-and-2026-review-submission-a-modernized-privacy-act-for-canadians

2026-07-15 14:37:07 UTC

💥NEW voter #privacy action for MPs!
Sign-ups for our online Parliamentary petition are closed, but pressure on MPs is just getting started!
Join 10k+ Canadians 🇨🇦. Tell your MP: bring political parties under privacy laws and protect your #data: https://openmedia.org/voter-privacy-2026-mtd

2026-06-19 22:11:57 UTC

What should Canada's modernized Privacy Act look like? We've been asking Canadians and on June 29, we're sharing what we heard. Join us live for expert insights, survey findings, and an open discussion. 👉 Sign up: https://openmedia.org/riff-raff-jun-2026-mtd @npub1e9q…59es

2026-06-16 14:56:37 UTC

BREAKING: 🇨🇦 decides there will be NO debate of amendments to #BillC22's controversial part 2 - the part that lets gov install surveillance devices in any digital tech in Canada.
Gov amendments will pass without reading; House vote will happen this week. #cdnpoli
https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/house/sitting-137/order-notice/page-11

2026-06-03 20:52:47 UTC

No matter your political views, all Canadians deserve strong privacy protections! Petition e-7237 asks Parliament to improve oversight of political party data practices.
✍️ Sign and share: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237
#cdnpoli
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2026-05-21 18:05:35 UTC

The liberal governments keeps pushing for #BillC22, and we just wrote to SECU to demand full withdrawal. The #surveillance powers are dangerously unsafe. This so-called 'lawful access' bill MUST NOT PASS! 👉 View our latest blog for its latest developments and why we need your action NOW.
https://openmedia.org/article/item/openmedia-to-secu-withdraw-bill-c-22-or-gut-its-surveillance-provisions
#cdnpoli

2026-05-14 00:53:32 UTC

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app many of us rely on, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes.
This should be our final alarm bell: we can have digital privacy or we can have legislation this broad and broken, not both!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/

2026-05-07 21:42:27 UTC

Pssst – want to stay up to date with everything we're up to on a feed YOU control?
By Mastodon user request, we just added RSS support to our website!
https://openmedia.org/site/rss
If you've got an RSS reader, copy that into it; if not, consider getting one! Old tech is still great tech here!

2026-05-07 16:05:15 UTC

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updated!

2026-05-07 13:58:05 UTC

Should political parties in 🇨🇦 follow the same privacy rules as companies? Bill C-4 Part 4 says no.
It ensured there's a totally different set of rules for how parties handle your data.
If you think that shouldn’t be the case, sign the petition today 👉 voterprivacy.ca

2026-05-04 17:36:43 UTC

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Last year, more than 10,000 people in 🇨🇦 spoke out against #BillC2 - and we stopped it.
#BillC22 is even worse; and so far, only 7,000 people have spoken up. If you live in 🇨🇦 and value your privacy, please activate your network against #BillC22 today.
https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-mast
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2026-05-04 17:36:26 UTC

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25+ of Canada's leading cybersecurity experts and rights defenders condemned #BillC22 with us.
Further letters are proliferating. We know of at least 4 more condemnations in works.
But none of this will matter if PM Carney forces #BillC22 through in one month.
https://openmedia.org/press/item/civil-society-to-parliament-kill-bill-c-22
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2026-05-04 17:36:12 UTC

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What on earth is 🇨🇦 doing with #BillC22 ?
Other countries are rushing to CLOSE every backdoor they can find, concerned by the new hacking capacity of Mythos and other AI models.
In 🇨🇦, we want to force hundreds of new backdoors by government decree.
Make it make sense.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/22/what-is-anthropic-mythos-ai-threat-global-cybersecurity
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2026-05-04 17:35:44 UTC

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🇨🇦 courts told government that metadata is private data; we have a right to it being private by default.
And 🇨🇦 is trying to end run around that protection by making gathering ALL Canadian metadata a default obligation. Surveillance on everyone, just in case.
https://www.robertdiab.ca/posts/metadata-c22/
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2026-05-04 17:35:26 UTC

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#BillC22 will force every digital service provider - including telcos, services, the cloud, even hardware - to build backdoors to their products for law enforcement.
It also forces them to retain 1 year of our metadata - where we go, who we talk to, when.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/the-lawful-access-privacy-risks-unpacking-bill-c-22s-expansive-metadata-retention-requirements/
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2026-05-04 17:35:10 UTC

🇨🇦's #BillC22 is entering committee study this week - and we're hearing it may become law by end of the month.
We never say this: but this is the worst, most privacy-breaking bill we've seen. It MUST be stopped.
Speak up against it and read on to learn more:
https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-mast
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2026-04-21 14:41:05 UTC

🚨 BREAKING: 25+ of Canada's leading rights orgs, privacy scholars, and legal experts just delivered a joint letter to Parliament.
The ask? Kill #BillC22.
The reason? It would be "the most expansive invasion of Canadian privacy rights in modern history." 🧵
https://openmedia.org/press/item/civil-society-to-parliament-kill-bill-c-22
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2026-04-10 15:36:36 UTC

Canada’s privacy and data protection laws are completely outdated and totally unfit to deal with data in the digital age. Exercise your right to privacy and call on your elected representatives to prioritize privacy reform now!
Send your message here 👉 http://openmedia.org/Privacy4Canadians-mtd-std
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/381/147/559/961/928/original/3646bae815424437.mp4

2026-03-24 02:38:41 UTC

📢 OpenMedia is looking for next-gen policy changemakers!🚀 If you want to deep dive into the heart of digital rights, advocacy, and community power, check out our summer fellowship!
As a fellow, you'll get:
✅ Engage directly with our 230,000+ member community
✅ One-on-one mentorship from an industry expert
✅ A national platform to publish your research and work
✅ Inside access to civic engagement in action alongside our team
Apply by April 19!
https://openmedia.org/summer-fellowship-2026

2026-03-23 21:51:58 UTC

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🇨🇦 looked at 🇺🇸's surveillance problems and said: hold our beer.
#BillC22 is proposing far greater surveillance, and a permanent treasure of private Canadian data no other democracy demands.
It's wildly dangerous, and we need to shut it down, NOW!
https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-mast.

2026-03-23 21:51:35 UTC

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#BillC22 in theory does not force "systemic vulnerabilities"; but gov can explicitly reinterpret all terms at will by regulation.
Hollow by design.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/a-tale-of-two-bills-lawful-access-returns-with-changes-to-warrantless-access-but-dangerous-backdoor-surveillance-risks-remains/

2026-03-23 21:50:59 UTC

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And here's the worst part: #BillC22 requires keeping 1 year of your metadata.
Who you called. Where you were. Which protest you attended. A comprehensive record of the life of every Canadian, ready for a warrant request from law enforcement, or a clever hacker.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/the-lawful-access-privacy-risks-unpacking-bill-c-22s-expansive-metadata-retention-requirements/

2026-03-23 21:50:33 UTC

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🇨🇦 goes further than US ever did. US law only covers telcos. #BillC22 covers messaging apps, cloud storage, online platforms. It may even cover phone and laptop hardware too.
https://robertdiab.substack.com/p/ottawa-reboots-its-lawful-access

2026-03-23 21:49:32 UTC

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That's not just more 🇨🇦 state surveillance.
In 2024, Chinese state hackers broke AT&T+Verizon through a similar backdoor. 1 mil+ people's data was compromised.
Coming soon to 🇨🇦 through #BillC22.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/salt-typhoon-hack-shows-theres-no-security-backdoor-thats-only-good-guys

2026-03-23 21:49:05 UTC

We need to talk about #BillC22- the largest surveillance bill Canada has ever seen.
It would force every messaging app, cloud service, internet provider and more that we use to build government backdoors into their infrastructure. Permanently.
Tell your MP to kill it now 👇
https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-mast

2026-03-05 00:47:10 UTC

ALERT: 🇨🇦’s political parties are DAYS away from using Bill C-4 to PERMANENTLY exempt themselves from basic privacy law.
Now is the time to force the House to accept a key compromise proposed by the Senate: a 3 year sunset period, during which they must get privacy right.
Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! https://www.openmedia.org/C4Sunset-mtd

2026-01-27 18:36:44 UTC

TAKE ACTION: No tech for ICE!
Today we're launching an action aimed at 🇨🇦 company Hootsuite 🦉, a registered B corp required by its certification to respect human rights... and a company actively seeking a billion dollar "social listening" contract with ICE.
If you want to tell them to tear those contracts up and permanently guarantee they will never provide their tools to ICE or DHS, take 30 seconds to speak up here!
https://www.openmedia.org/NoTech4ICE
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2026-01-26 23:43:17 UTC

FYI folks, we're launching a new action demanding Hootsuite do better tomorrow. A one-click action for you to tell them to drop their ICE contract, NOW.
There's so much we can't make better in the world right now; but this one, we quite possibly can fix.
Please stay tuned, and share once it is up!

2026-01-26 17:25:34 UTC

Hootsuite signing a contract with ICE in this environment is profoundly shameful.
They know very well their social media monitoring tools will be misused to attempt to punish ICE's targets and citizen protestors.
We deleted our account with them, others should too!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-hootsuite-ceo-says-ice-contract-will-stand-as-long-as-agency-honours/

2026-01-20 20:37:28 UTC

We want to say how deeply we appreciate the warm welcome from Mastodon- and hello to all our new follows!
As a grassroots community, networks of people are our lifeblood. We were on Twitter for 10+ years, and deeply invested in the 30k community we built there.
Leaving X is a leap of faith that we can build a new community here in the Fediverse – and you're rewarding that faith in spades.
Follow us for many opportunities to stand up for democracy, privacy and free expression in days ahead!

2026-01-19 21:54:52 UTC

Today we're leaving X. If you're still there, we think you should consider leaving too.
A word here on:
1. why it is so difficult to leave collapsing platforms;
2. why we're making this decision today;
3. where else you can find us.
https://openmedia.org/article/item/were-leaving-x

2025-10-27 21:02:20 UTC

Calling all digital policy enthusiasts!
Don't miss the Canadian IGF, THE annual meetup for those who want to make our Internet great!
Join online or in person in Ottawa on November 13.
Learn more and register here: https://canadianigf.ca/event-details/

2025-09-05 23:06:07 UTC

This week we joint delivered a 14 point plan to Prime Minister Carney on how to advance Canada's digital sovereignty and safeguard our digital future.
We were proud to sign the call to drop Bill C-2, pass privacy reform and much more. Read more here: https://openmedia.org/article/item/open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-of-canada-from-organizations-and-individuals-concerned-about-canadas-digital-sovereignty

2025-06-18 15:08:48 UTC

Today we're releasing a joint letter signed by 160+ civil society groups, academics, and lawyers demanding full withdrawal of #BillC2.
@MarkJCarney
’s dangerous surveillance bill is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian.
Let’s get into it. 1/7
https://openmedia.org/assets/2025%28June%29_OM_Civil_Society_Joint_Letter_BillC2_Final.pdf