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"The "Snoopers' Charter" passed in the U.K. greatly expands the government's surveillance power. But before they'd enact the new Investigatory Powers Act, Britain's elected officials first voted to make themselves exempt from it."
What, you thought the ruling class would subject themselves to the same standards as the plebians?
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@gameragodzilla The british intelligence agencies were all too happy to help out with PRISM. It's something they've been facing a lot of flak for because it was like, flat out illegal for them to do so. The Snooper's Charter is in many ways them making it retroactively legal for them to do what they were already doing.
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@gameragodzilla Honestly, Canada is really quite decent about this kind of privacy stuff, relatively speaking, and these days, it definitely is relative, because I wouldn't say _anywhere_ is actually *good* about it.
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@gameragodzilla The funny thing was the previous government was going to claw this stuff back, but the media was against Harper so he got voted out and we got Trudeau instead.
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@gameragodzilla While most of the people who bash on our previous PM Harper won't admit it, like probably 90% of his unpopularity comes down to the media being against him. He should have just told them to go fuck themselves rather than try to be diplomatic, it seems. Certainly worked for Trump.
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@gameragodzilla Harper was a decent PM. Not amazeballs, but most of his policy stuff was pretty sane, and he did Canada a solid by killing Usage-Based Billing which would have given our ISP duopoly free reign to basically abusively bill people, and he also introduced several 'net neutrality' type bills. But the media here is basically owned by the Liberal party, …
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