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Federal parties exempt themselves from privacy laws — despite Senate warnings Every national party except the Greens chose on Thursday to grant themselves an indefinite exemption from laws protecting the privacy of Canadians, rejecting Senate concerns about Bill C-4.

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From cooperation to complicity: meet the companies powering the EU's war on migrants - Access Now In new research, Access Now reveals the private sector companies helping to build Fortress Europe, via relationships with the EU agencies focused on migration and border security.

From cooperation to complicity: meet the companies powering the EU's war on migrants - Access Now

Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations No decryption occurs inside the processor, eliminating entire classes of attacks.

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Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Seeing Like a Data Structure Our data-centric way of seeing the world isn't serving us well. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier argue that we need new socio-technical systems that leave room for the inherent messiness of reality.

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Checking your ex’s socials or overusing Find My Friends? Welcome to the age of interpersonal surveillance | Tatum Hunter Invasive behaviour that would have shocked us a decade ago now barely registers. And that includes the way we digitally track and monitor each other, says technology journalist Tatum Hunter

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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other…

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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar…

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TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

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The World Is Talking About Indigenous Data Sovereignty — But Who Is Operationalising It? | LinkedIn buff.ly/N2gjDCK

Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI - Schneier on Security Canada has a choice to make about its artificial intelligence future. The Carney administration is investing $2-billion over five years in its Sovereign AI Compute Strategy. Will any value generated…

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Three TV Commercials Show What’s Wrong with Big Tech, Privacy, and AI This year’s Superbowl was a showcase for how out of touch tech companies are when it comes to privacy and AI.

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I think Anthropic’s survival will prove my larger argument: that a small group of deeply powerful tech companies are not only becoming too big to fail, but too big to govern. buff.ly/W4trFfi

‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

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Bill C-4 Part 4 gives federal political parties the power to collect and use your personal information without your consent. I urge you to sign this House of Commons petition to register your opposition to this attack on democracy buff.ly/R61L263

Status Go vs. Status Quo We’ll never have civilized life in the digital world while people have no way of their own to signal and enforce their privacy preferences and requirements, as they do in the natural world wi…

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Endorse Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter! 🇨🇦 Canada needs real digital sovereignty NOW to secure the future we deserve. ✍️ Endorse the Digital Sovereignty Charter’s five principles today!

🇨🇦 Canada needs real digital sovereignty NOW to secure the future we deserve. ✍️ Endorse the Digital Sovereignty Charter’s five principles today! openmedia.org/DigitalChart... @openmedia.org

Mark Carney has endorsed the US/Israeli war on Iran. Tell the Prime Minister to condemn this effort to balkanize Iran in service of US imperialism and genocidal Jewish supremacy.
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AI Is Not Improving Productivity: Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu This Me, Myself, and AI episode features MIT professor and Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu and host Sam Ransbotham.

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KITCHI-MANITO-WAYA (Kakee-manitou-wata, Kamantowiwew, Almighty Voice, Jean Baptiste) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography In 1895 the Cree hunter Kitchi-manito-waya, called Almighty Voice (d. 1897), was arrested for killing a cow. He escaped and murdered a North-West Mounted Police sergeant who had been sent after him.…

The life and death of Almighty Voice illustrate the priorities of the Canadian state in the late 19th century: opening up the west for white settlers, preserving the peace, and keeping Indigenous peoples confined to their reserves...who would gradually be assimilated... buff.ly/iqjyBhG

License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data | ACLU Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected

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Time for the Government to Fix Its Political Party Privacy Blunder: Kill Bill C-4’s Disastrous Privacy Rules - Michael Geist Just weeks after last year’s election, Mark Carney’s government committed not one, but two privacy blunders in rapid succession. First, Bill C-2 - literally the first substantive bill of the new…

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‘A big f*ck you to big tech’: New Jersey residents defeat AI data center “It’s time to build communities, not data centers,” said one local activist.

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How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder and more costly to understand, modify, or extend over time...

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Exclusive: The end of Canada's public healthcare on the horizon Alberta is set to either have a massive confrontation with the government, or to break open a dam that can't be fixed.

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US economy: jobs and AI The US economy expanded only at an annualised 1.4% in Q4 2025, well below forecasts of 3%, the advance estimate of real GDP showed. And over the whole 2025, the US economy expanded 2.2%, or below t…

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The tiny technology that rules the world Watch now | The global economy hinges on this fingernail-sized silicon chip.

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It's Very Possible To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed Reading by Tim Foley:

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You can’t build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government