<div dir="auto">I get all of Open Media's emails on these topics and there's usually a way to submit a form or custom email template to your MP and the relevant ministers. Here's the relevant one here under Campaigns:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1?chain">https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1?chain</a><br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Related Article:<br><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><a href="https://openmedia.org/press/item/ottawa-repackages-its-surveillance-backdoor-in-bill-c-22">https://openmedia.org/press/item/ottawa-repackages-its-surveillance-backdoor-in-bill-c-22</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 5:43\u202fPM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Somehow I found myself reading this.<br>
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<a href="https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/more-surveillance-demands-to-come-government-admits-bill-c-22s-lawful-access-provisions-could-be-expanded/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/more-surveillance-demands-to-come-government-admits-bill-c-22s-lawful-access-provisions-could-be-expanded/</a><br>
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Personally, as a maker of 3NWeb, were 2nd N stands for "No unnecessary <br>
metadata given to service provider", <br>
<a href="https://opensource.ieee.org/3nweb/architecture#-federation-classical-vs-web-based" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://opensource.ieee.org/3nweb/architecture#-federation-classical-vs-web-based</a> <br>
, I could be smug with an "I told you so" smile. But.<br>
Personally, I have on my mind only one thing: please, please, please, <br>
don't turn this place into worst parts of the USSR, clearly observable <br>
in Putin's Russia.<br>
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Where do we communicate to our reps/MP(s)?<br>
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Collection of metadata on all, forced by government, is incompatible <br>
with EU. In other words, companies from here won't be able to do <br>
business in 500M population market.<br>
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If a company collects all this metadata, creating a juicy target, will <br>
government protect it? E.g. I have to store financial document in the <br>
office, but there is Police and RCMP that are a deterrent for those who <br>
may steal my physical stuff. Hence, we can keep those note paper. But in <br>
a digital realm, if government forces me to collect a pile of stuff that <br>
attracts thieves, then it should provide protection. Where is it? And if <br>
there is none, don't force me to collect metadata.<br>
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I wonder, if for modern app, it may be more expensive to capture and <br>
keep all of metadata, than it is to just keep user's data.<br>
It feels like a squeeze: government requirements on one side, and crazy <br>
prices for storage one another.<br>
Thoughts?<br>
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