🇨🇦 Millions of voters exposed, and the state still wants more of your data

An alleged breach affecting millions of Alberta voters is the kind of fiasco that should end the ruling class obsession with vacuuming up citizen information, yet the lesson from this crowd is always give government and its activist hangers-on even more access. Alberta and the Centurion Project are now being sued over a voter data mess reported, which tells you everything about the competence of the people forever preaching trust the institutions.

And watch the spin machine do its usual trick: the real scandal is never the expanding surveillance culture, only who got embarrassed by it this week. Canadians are lectured daily about online safety, disinformation, digital governance, election integrity, the whole sanctimonious package. Meanwhile, political ecosystems and governments hoard personal data like candy, then act shocked when it leaks. Maybe a sovereign country should stop treating citizens as entries in a managed database and start treating privacy as something other than a disposable inconvenience for bureaucrats, consultants, and ideological projects.

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