Toronto-based censorship circumvention provider Psiphon is preparing to move its operations out of Canada if Bill C-22 passes in its current form, warning that surveillance obligations could undermine the protections its users depend on.
Bill C-22 would establish a framework requiring covered electronic service providers to develop technical capabilities that support authorized access to information by police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The proposed legislation also restricts disclosure of ministerial orders, including whether a provider has received one.
and they are not alone: Toronto-based Windscribe VPN is also considering an exit.
Just like Proton AG relocated all their infrastructure out of Switzerland in a haste some time ago over concerns about a planned new executive ordinance of that nature (which was withdrawn after wide population rebuff)
This seems to be a worldwide trend and it’s scary
i am a world human and not Canadian. However i understood. We all need some intelligence and protection. And yes some local VPN is just a free internet support on a common free sub layer. Intelligent Service have some needs to observe and measure it. And we have to hope they done it right and got not exploited by some other LLM.
We as Humans need to protect and have our own thoughts saved through … stuff like offline self crypto writings. I wrote this from a privacy perspective because its important to save thoughts.
I just hope that in the end all human connect together for some programs.
Scary is just the new one. it is not some enemy. Its some new evolution division we all try to explore…
Libgeoclue teaches us that the VPNs are compromised. I have never operated with the assumption of anonymity online. I know that they are watching. In the unlikely event that the US government is hiding knowledge about the presence of invisible alien life on Earth, now would be a good time to inform fellow man before the situation gets any worse. Their petty greedy quarrels about the price of oil or who possesses the billions of dollars pale in comparison to the enslavement of the species.
(That being said, given that it was possible to have humans obtain perceived freedom prior to the invention of the internet, there is a higher likelihood of humans being the bad actors at the top in society than the non-humans, because if the non-humans had wanted to do something bad they would have done so without informing humans of the concept of the surveillance technology.)
This is not what I was talking about.
I want to be able to go on the internet, to seek information, to learn, to communicate when it is not practical to meet in person.
I would feel miserable without the internet. But I want my privacy to be respected - it is a basic human right. I don’t necessarily want anonymity, I would use Tor for that, not VPNs.
Just like Snowden quoted: I don’t do anything wrong on the internet, but what I do is nobody’s business!
That’s what VPNs are for, and that’s why ubiquitous surveillance wants to crush this possibility for privacy on the net.
Its not about do something right or have nothing to hide. Privacy give every human or LLM some kind of free space.
However we need some layers of control. Like Parents, Teachers, AI Supporters without uplink… to have a free space to talk about and create new stuff or a level about what is right and whats wrong.
On the opposite is a group which try to suggest and predict our future and watch our decisions to predict future trends or just crowed and market behavior for own earnings and financial interest.
You need privacy to develop yourself, trust me. And its not only about the net, its for you and your social links too and your and there relations. This was about free speech in the first place.
However i just done some euphoric drunk post about Math, history, open source and some Matrix Movie series… however i see our planet die and we have to act, like change our fossil fuel consumption to some energy transition to be green and with solar, wind, water and battery to reach zero fast. El Nino strikes hard 2027 be protected and have supplies. Store less information as possible with computers.