{"id":666853,"date":"2025-06-26T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=666853"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:41:01","slug":"michael-geist-the-governments-stunning-new-assault-on-canadians-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=666853","title":{"rendered":"Michael Geist: The government\u2019s stunning new assault on Canadians\u2019 privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Political parties want to exempt themselves from privacy safeguards with anti-privacy measures buried in \u201caffordability measures\u201d bill<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fresh off burying lawful access provisions that grant access to internet subscriber information without a warrant in the border bill, the government has now quietly inserted provisions that exempt political parties from the application of privacy protections in Bill C-4, an \u201caffordability measures\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>The provisions, which come toward the end of the bill, are deemed to be in force as of May 31, 2000, retroactively exempting the parties from any privacy violations that may date back decades. The provisions mean the parties will be exempted from the privacy standards faced by private sector organizations across the country, with no real consequences for privacy violations and no effective oversight over the use of Canadians\u2019 personal information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/2025\/06\/16\/michael-geist-the-governments-stunning-new-assault-on-canadians-privacy\/\">https:\/\/thehub.ca\/2025\/06\/16\/michael-geist-the-governments-stunning-new-assault-on-canadians-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political parties want to exempt themselves from privacy safeguards with anti-privacy measures buried in \u201caffordability measures\u201d bill Fresh off burying lawful access provisions that grant access to internet subscriber information without a warrant in the border bill, the government has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=666853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666854,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666853\/revisions\/666854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}