As I just heard this on CBC, The Sunday Edition: Welcome to the World on Online News — is this the death of serious journalism?, Molly found and commented on a Calgary Herald
“Egregious privacy breach attracts little attention” by Karin Klassen, Calgary Herald, May 16, 2014
Meanwhile, almost under the radar, except for a pocket of people trying desperately to raise the alarm, outrageous legislation has passed, enforceable in July, that directly affects the privacy of Canadians in the worst possible way. While indignant tweets were a flyin’ over whom precisely is allowed to read on my newsfeed that one of my friends needs help with diaper rash, we endured with barely a peep this egregious invasion of the privacy of actually important information.
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Every country has a problem with this legislation; Stephen Harper, however, has handed over the ransom, possibly some argue, violating the Constitution. Canada is the last of the G7 countries to agree, but agree it did in a big way, by letting the Canada Revenue Agency be the middleman. (I suppose this was to avoid the banks getting a bad name, but also ostensibly to assure Canadians they are being violated by a not-for-profit organ.) Continue reading