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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is such a fundamentally stupid idea in the first place. It proves the legislators are thoughtless morons on the subject.

Yes, lets compell ALL providers to create and maintain very desirable targets (dossiers of user's personal data and all activity) and also compell access for the incompetent RCMP to get it whenever they like. Let's also understand that Canada has already passed a law to make sure they can never be held responsible if they fail to properly protect that data on their end.

Oh don't forget, they don't mind at all if the providers give them MORE than they ask for, volunarily. Nothing weird about that, I'm sure that explicitly stated and intentionally placed soft spot will never be misused. They are going to take all this data, and shove it into an LLM and then god-knows-what.

I guess now I get serious about I2P and other options to move my activity off the surface web, given that VPNs will be pointless now. And so I need to think about what of my online activity that I can accept the government collecting, understanding that they WILL misuse it and fail to protect it.

I hope Proton goes big-brain and uses that 'voluntary data' loop-hole to pollute the data of whatever it is forced to share.