The Privacy & Access Council of Canada, along with more than 65 other leading Canadian individuals and organizations, has endorsed an open letter urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to withdraw the deeply flawed, anti-privacy Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act.
The Strong Borders Act opens the door to unprecedented surveillance and cross-border data sharing. Its sweeping powers would allow government authority to open mail, allow requests for information (that cannot be refused), and allow secret orders to disclose information.
The bill’s broad powers will facilitate requests from American and other governments to “any person that provides a service to the public” for information that could include personal information, corporate strategies, donor identities, and other details that could be weaponized to ruin competitors, discredit dissenters, and undermine opponents.
Bill C2’s potential to affect privacy and data protection will hamper PACC members’ ability to comply with privacy laws.
As the leading Canadian organization dedicated to the development of the access-to-information, information privacy, and data protection profession across the private, non-profit, and public sectors, the Privacy & Access Council is hosting events to raise awareness about the impacts that Bill C-2 will have on data protection and privacy practitioners. Visit pacc-ccap.ca/events for details
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