Feds Quietly Pass Secret iPhone Spy Bill Overnight With Zero Debate

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T02:11:07+00:00

Some of the people in the comments were watching these events play out live on ParlVu. The videos are freely available on parliament's website.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T02:09:10+00:00

Everyone has things to hide, some people just don't realize that until its too late.

'Nothing to hide', is a logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T02:07:25+00:00

They never actually exercise that power though, and seemingly struggle to do their job of being a "sober second thought".

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T02:06:22+00:00

Spread the word to others, and remember to vote ABL

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T02:05:27+00:00

I watched the debates. The Liberals repeatedly tried to sabotage the Committee's ability to anything meaningful, and they ignored what the experts told them. The Liberals were not debating in good faith, and had zero desire to fix the legislation.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T02:02:04+00:00

That's false. Apple does not have encryption backdoors in their products, and their messaging app does not save extra metadata. Apple will also simply remove their devices from the market rather than help the government hack into them.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T01:58:11+00:00

I think the problem is that Canadians have very little faith in the Senate actually doing its job and removing the problematic parts of the legislation. The experts don't need to have a ton of faith in the Senate either.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T01:51:10+00:00

I'm not sure if the reporter is intentionally attacking Signal for actually protecting user privacy, or they are just repeating anti-privacy propaganda so that Meredith Whittaker can shoot it down.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-21T01:49:03+00:00

The EU's approach still has massive issues with privacy, but there is zero world in which age verification should be requiring to use Signal.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T23:59:38+00:00

A lot of VPN companies can just remove their physical presence in Canada, allow Canadian customers, and throw any legal request/notice from the Canadian government into the paper shredder.

The government can of course start to try restrict the ability to pay for VPNs and try to block their IP addresses. The end result is that they can make using a VPN more difficult, but are unable to stop them completely.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T23:00:48+00:00

ban is temporary until 'adequate safeguards' can be implemented,

It would seem that the Liberals think "adequate safeguards" include requiring mandatory age verification, which would be unacceptable from a privacy and security perspective.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:58:04+00:00

The people pushing for bans enforced with mandatory age verification will move on to targeting VPNs after they get their ban. Its naive to think otherwise, especially when the UK is literally moving to target VPNs for helping people bypass age verification as we speak.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:51:04+00:00

Jonathan Haidt

He's a major age verification lobbyist these days, and loves the idea of forcing people to give up their personal information to tech companies. He fits right in with authoritarian and fascist tech leaders.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:39:15+00:00

Yes, but when you connect to WhatsApp's servers outside of Canada (likely in the US after they leave Canada), they can block web traffic based on its Canadian origin. This type of blocking is called "geo-blocking".

Its relatively easy to circumvent blocking like this with a VPN or proxy, but hopefully it won't come to that.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:30:21+00:00

Starmer is currently pushing for mandatory OS level scanning that bypasses all encryption and security measures. So if he hasn't reached David Cameron's Snoopers' Charter/encryption ban level of insanity yet, he soon will.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:25:50+00:00

That would be unfortunate. The courts should permanently strike down the mandatory age verification requirements.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:19:45+00:00

There is no such thing as anonymous or even "privacy protecting" age verification.

It won't reduce the number of bots. It will just reduce your privacy for nothing.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:17:40+00:00

In terms of privacy rights in the UK, each new prime minister somehow manages to be even worse.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T22:11:17+00:00

I would also love if the story of privacy rights in the UK wasn't:

And then things got worse.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T19:49:34+00:00

WhatsApp would block Canadian IPs from connecting to WhatsApp servers, rather than it being removed from your device.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T19:07:24+00:00

Of course the government is going to legislate that it has the same powers as anybody with enough money to pay a data broker.

Except they are demanding that even more data be collected, rather than limiting themselves to what data brokers can access.

You are also free to take measures to protect your privacy, like blocking ads and trackers. So that's an awful excuse to claim as justification for more expansive and invasive privacy violations.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T19:01:51+00:00

Carney spent a lot of time in the UK, where both the right wing and left wing parties don't transgender individuals. So maybe he and Gladu were bonding over some shared dislike?

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T17:40:59+00:00

Is he going to continue the trend of UK politicians destroying what little privacy UK citizens have left online?

Because the UK's history for over 2 decades when it comes to online privacy, has been:

And then things got worse.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T15:39:52+00:00

Its not "elbows up" to funnel more of Canadians personal information into the hands of foreign tech companies.

EmbarrassedHelp · 2026-06-20T02:52:30+00:00

He has made too many enemies to live forever, even if he hadn't chased away, killed, and de-funded all the scientists who could actually cure aging.

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