Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age

In a recent opinion piece in the Toronto Star, staff journalist Justin Ling argues that to improve productivity, Canada needs to tolerate more corruption. This is nonsense – in fact the reverse is true. As he says, simply creating more bureaucracy in response to each scandal doesn’t work.

Twenty-one civil liberties organizations, privacy groups and individual experts expressed their deep alarm that, late last night, the federal government cut off debate at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on the very controversial Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. Bill C-22 raises very significant privacy and security concerns, including that it will:

Canadians finally have a serious and knowledgeable report on how to fix our woeful federal whistleblower protection law – the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA), found by the International Bar Association to the be among the worst on the planet.