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  AI agents tried to hack divorce records from a 🇨🇦 government website! 🤯 The hacking attempts appear to have failed, and the Canadian government says there is no indication its systems were compromised. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ai-agents-tried-to-hack-canadian-government-website/

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  Tech companies and groups, including Windscribe, Tailscale, Coinbase Canada, Nord Security, and Tucows, have sent a joint letter to Ministers Anandasangaree and Joly on #BillC22. They say the bill as drafted will erode trust in 🇨🇦's tech sector! https://progresschamber.org/resources/coalition-letter-canada-amend-bill-c-22/#the-letter

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  💥New Action! Tell your MP: Fix online platforms, don't ban or surveil users! Amend #BillC34 today! The "Safe Social Media Act," bundles healthy platform accountability through a 'duty of care,' and a wide social media ban enforced by #privacyinvasive age verification: https://openmedia.org/BillC34-mtd

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  You shouldn’t have to choose between privacy measures you value. Help us fix Bill C-34! Last chance to share your thoughts! 👉 http://openmedia.org/digita-safety-survey-2026-mtd ❗ Survey closes Aug 2nd 🔗 Link in Bio

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  Share your voice on digital safety before August 2nd! Take our short survey! 👉 http://openmedia.org/digita-safety-survey-2026

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  LAST CHANCE to fix #BillC22 surveillance powers that threaten Canadians' rights and privacy! Major companies and civil society groups are raising the alarm. Demand the Senate #ReformC22 now! 👉 https://openmedia.org/ReformC22-mtd

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  80% of people in 🇨🇦 think political parties should follow the same privacy rules as businesses and public institutions! But political parties can build hidden profiles on adults and minors using voter lists and data brokers. 💥 Tell your MP to change this: https://openmedia.org/voter-privacy-2026-mtd #cdnpoli

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  Nearly 4,700 of Canadians told us what they wanted from a modernized Privacy Act. We turned that into policy recommendations for the 2026 Review of Canada’s decades-old Privacy Act. Read our full report now! 👉 https://openmedia.org/article/item/openmedias-survey-report-and-2026-review-submission-a-modernized-privacy-act-for-canadians

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  Canada is considering new online safety legislation through Bill #C34, the Safe Social Media Act. We want to know what YOU think “safe” social media looks like🔒📝Take our short survey before August 2 👉 https://openmedia.org/digita-safety-survey-2026-mtd

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  💥NEW voter #privacy action for MPs! Sign-ups for our online Parliamentary petition are closed, but pressure on MPs is just getting started! Join 10k+ Canadians 🇨🇦. Tell your MP: bring political parties under privacy laws and protect your #data: https://openmedia.org/voter-privacy-2026-mtd

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  A printable community resource inspired by our town halls earlier this month! 📖 Check out this printable zine a community member produced about Bill C-22. Print copies and share them at community events, festivals, or with friends and neighbours this summer: https://openmedia.org/assets/Privacy_Zine_Print_Canada.pdf #Privacy #CommunityResources

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  Final days to act for 🇨🇦 #privacy! 9,000+ people have already signed the petition: because right now, political parties can collect, buy, and use your personal data with almost no consent rules! That’s not how democracy should work! Help change this the next federal election. ✍️ Sign by Saturday, July 4: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237 #cdnpoli

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  Federal political parties collect people’s data and target communications in 🇨🇦, yet they aren’t subject to the same #privacy rules as companies or public institutions. People in Canada deserve better! ✍️ Sign & share by July 4: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237

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  You might already be in a political database in 🇨🇦; you never consented to it, and you can’t see or change it. Political parties can build profiles using voter records, #data brokers, and inferred traits about your behaviour + interests! Sign by July 4 to fix this: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237 #Privacy #cdnpoli

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  4 days left to DOUBLE your impact! ⏳ Thanks to Windscribe, every dollar you donate before June 30 is MATCHED up to $5,000. 🎉 Let’s hit this goal! https://openmedia.org/supercharge-2026-mtd 🎯

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  🔊 Anita Nickerson of Fair Vote Canada on voter #privacy: “It is common sense that there shouldn't be privacy rules that apply to almost every organization in Canada, and no rules for political parties": https://action.voterprivacy.ca/page/194272/action/1 Help change that and sign Petition e-7237 by July 4! #cdnpoli

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  Join the national push to close a major privacy gap in 🇨🇦! Over 8,400 people have already signed the parliamentary petition e-7237 calling for political parties to be brought under privacy law. Sign here by July 4: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237 #cdnpoli #privacy

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  Political parties in 🇨🇦 can buy data from shady data brokers and combine it with the voter list to target you! They can collect and use your #data without consent, and you may never know if it’s breached. This isn’t normal in a democracy! Sign by Saturday, July 4 to fix this: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237 #cdnpoli #privacy

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  Imagine if your bank: - bought data about you from data brokers - combined it with government records- - didn’t have to tell you what it has - didn’t need your consent to do it That’s allowed for political parties in 🇨🇦 right now! Sign by July 4 to fix this: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237 #cdnpoli #canada #privacy

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  BREAKING: 🇨🇦 decides there will be NO debate of amendments to #BillC22's controversial part 2 - the part that lets gov install surveillance devices in any digital tech in Canada. Gov amendments will pass without reading; House vote will happen this week. #cdnpoli https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/house/sitting-137/order-notice/page-11

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  Federal political parties are collecting your data and using it to target messages to you—but unlike companies and governments, they aren’t held to the same privacy rules. Canadians are calling for change! ✍️ Sign and share: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237 #cdnpoli

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  1/One of the worst parts of the massive Alberta voter data leak: Domestic violence groups say survivors are now fearing for their safety. 🧵 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/domestic-violence-concerns-alberta-voter-list-9.7190212

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  2/Names, addresses, phone numbers, and other voter information tied to millions of Albertans were made searchable online. This isn’t just a privacy issue. It’s a personal safety one. https://globalnews.ca/news/11828244/alberta-voter-list-leak-public-safety-disaster/

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  3/And here’s the thing: federal parties also collect your data while remaining largely exempt from privacy rules. That means the exact same risk exists on the federal level, waiting for a sketchy political party to leak the WHOLE Canadian voter list. Learn more 👇 https://action.openmedia.org/page/190052/action/1

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  4/Political parties shouldn’t get a free pass from privacy rules. Canadians need real safeguards, oversight, and accountability. Tell Parliament we want them accountable 👇 https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7237

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116517516303137157 As of today, we've sent more than 9,600 emails to MPs calling on them to STOP #BillC22! But with Signal confirming they'll pull out of 🇨🇦 if the bill passes, we desperately need more people to speak up to prevent catastrophic consequences for Canadian privacy. Please spread the word! #cdnpoli

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  #BillC22 is going to change your rights to #privacy. Friends from OpenCivics put together a quick walkthrough and explained why we need Canadians to stop it together now! 👉 https://dontsurveil.me/c22.html #cdnpoli

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  We'll be joining Robert Diab, this evening 6PM EDT/ 3PM PDT to unpack everything #BillC22 on this Goodbot's event. Register and tune! https://luma.com/qgvc95xz #cdnpoli

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  The liberal governments keeps pushing for #BillC22, and we just wrote to SECU to demand full withdrawal. The #surveillance powers are dangerously unsafe. This so-called 'lawful access' bill MUST NOT PASS! 👉 View our latest blog for its latest developments and why we need your action NOW. https://openmedia.org/article/item/openmedia-to-secu-withdraw-bill-c-22-or-gut-its-surveillance-provisions #cdnpoli

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  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/