🇨🇦 Your metadata may be kept for a year under lawful access bill. What to know

Officials promise they won't read your emails—just force telecoms to store a year's worth of your digital breadcrumbs so they can hoover it up with a warrant whenever convenient. Feel safer yet? This is the same government that froze bank accounts during the convoy without trial, now building the infrastructure for perpetual surveillance. The bill doesn't need to let them read your messages today—it creates the database for tomorrow.

Metadata reveals who you talk to, when, where, and how often. That's a social graph, a movement pattern, and a political profile rolled into one. Experts are concerned, which in Canadian policy-speak means this is a disaster. Trudeau's Liberals spent years screaming about foreign interference while building a domestic panopticon. The irony would be funny if it weren't your freedom on the line.

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