🇨🇦 Privacy Watchdog Wants More Controls After Police Accessed Your Data Without Warrants

Project South exposed what we already knew: the surveillance state doesn't ask permission. Now a watchdog begs for guardrails on police databases as if bureaucratic theatre will stop agencies that already ignored the rules. They accessed private information en masse, trampled civil liberties, and only after getting caught does anyone pretend to care about oversight. Classic Canadian reflex: abuse power first, appoint a committee later.

This isn't about privacy protection. It's about managing optics while the infrastructure for tracking dissidents stays intact. Remember the Emergencies Act and frozen bank accounts? The apparatus is built. It just needs the right crisis and the wrong opinion to activate again. Your data isn't safer because some commissioner wrote a stern letter.

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