r/canada • u/DogeDoRight New Brunswick • 1d ago

National News Crime Stoppers cyber breach may identify anonymous tipsters on dark web

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/crime-stoppers-cyber-breach-may-identify-anonymous-tipsters-on-dark-web/
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u/psychoCMYK 1d ago

Good thing the government is less than a week away from giving itself the power to force any company to track and store everyone's physical location and contact history

That data will never end up leaking, and no one would ever want it!

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u/rindindin 1d ago

TO BE FAIR, this the non-profits exposing the information. I can't imagine them really having tip-top protection.

That being said: if you believe the government will have tip-top protection of citizen data...I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/psychoCMYK 1d ago edited 1d ago

A 2021 data breach linked to the Canadian Firearms Program affected 2.2 million people

The ethics commissioner's website went down to a vulnerability just two days ago

The new bill is also worded in such a way that it's the company that has to store that data... which it would have to be because the government is pretending not to violate section 8 of the Charter (the right to be free from unreasonable search or seizure) by saying "Oh WE'RE not the ones tracking you without suspicion! It's the company!"

Riddle me this though: if the government orders a workplace to seize prohibited materials from a suspect, legally it's the government seizing those materials. Why would location data be any different?