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Matt Simpson on 2026-05-13 09:51 pm 🚀

OpenMedia on 2026-05-13 07:53 pm

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app many of us rely on, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes.

This should be our final alarm bell: we can have digital privacy or we can have legislation this broad and broken, not both!

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/

Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill

Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government

Matt Simpson on 2026-05-12 09:09 pm

"Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare" Canadians deserve better, so stop with it already.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare

Awesome HN comment from Embarrassed help:
Both the mandatory data retention and encryption backdoor requirements will cause encrypted messaging services like Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Matrix, and others to block both Canadians and Canadian businesses from their services.

If you live in Canada or are impacted by this legislation, then you need to tell both your MP and the Minister of Public Safety of Canada to reject this legislation.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) published information about Bill C-22 here just over a week ago:
https://ccla.org/privacy/coalition-to-mps-scrap-unprecedented-surveillance-measures/

The blanket metadata retention and encryption backdoor requirements of Bill C-22 are illegal in the European Union.

Multiple groups have made easy to use tools for sending your MP and (other members of government) an email about rejecting this terrible legislation in its current form:

* The Internet Society's tool:
https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/keep-canada-protected/

* OpenMedia's messaging tool: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1

* ICLM's messaging tool:
https://iclmg.ca/stop-c-22/

I would also recommend emailing the Minister of Public Safety of Canada (Gary Anandasangaree: gary.anand@parl.gc.ca) and the Minister of Justice (Sean Fraser: sean.fraser@parl.gc.ca).

#canada #cdnpoli #privacy #privacymatters

Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

Last year, the Canadian government pushed Bill C-2, which would erode Canadian digital rights in the name of “border security.” The bill was so bad it didn’t even make it to committee because of the backlash from the privacy community. Now, the spring’s worst sequel, Bill C-22, aka The Lawful Access Act, is trying it again.

Matt Simpson on 2026-05-08 02:16 am 🚀

Colossal on 2026-05-07 03:17 pm

The Milky Way photo contest is your annual reminder that the universe is big and beautiful 💫

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/milky-way-photographer-of-the-year-contest-2026/

#photography #nature

a stunning photo of the vibrant milky way in a star studded sky

Matt Simpson on 2026-05-08 02:09 am 🚀

lenazun on 2026-05-07 07:57 pm

i love reading because it never looks like you’re wasting your time, avoiding exercise or housework. you’re not mindlessly watching tv or doomscrolling. you’re *reading a book*, a morally superior activity that makes you better than other people.