Greg
March 16, 2026, 12:34pm
#1
Europe has already begun coercing the largest companies to keep information on everyone and reveal it to the government:
And this just in: a bill being considered in Canada would require all service providers to maintain metadata, and in a worrying trend, would give the government ways to get any amount of this data secretly, presumably without a warrant:
The decades-long battle over lawful access entered a new phase yesterday with the introduction of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. This bill follows the attempt last spring to bury lawful access provisions in Bill C-2, a border measures bill that...
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Europe is considering it:
Australia: https://www.quorumcyber.com/threat-intelligence/new-australian-hacking-bill/
In the UK, mass surveillance has already been normalized:
The use of electronic surveillance by the United Kingdom grew from the development of signal intelligence and pioneering code breaking during World War II. In the post-war period, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was formed and participated in programmes such as the Five Eyes collaboration of English-speaking nations. This focused on intercepting electronic communications, with substantial increases in surveillance capabilities over time. A series of media reports in 2013 rev...
In the US, corporations already work with government to create similar networks of cameras:
Some cities like NYC have been rolling out robust systems to surveil the public:
https://www.nyc.gov/site/nycha/about/nycha-cctv-pilot.page
and they are now planning to massively expand the use of CCTV in areas around low cost housing:
On the other hand, here is a viable solution that would balance privacy and accountability:
NSA , the FBI , or Facebook recording audio and video , the public often only finds out when they get caught. You can read more here:
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