Tyler Dawson examines issues surrounding government surveillance for The Ottawa Citizen, writing, “when we cannot know what is being done to us—as is the case with much modern surveillance—then we have clearly not consented to give away our private information.” A separate story in The Ottawa Citizen suggests Canada could face a blow to global commerce under proposed EU legislation to curb the sharing of personal data with “countries involved with the unprecedented U.S.-led cyber-surveillance of the world’s citizens.” Meanwhile, experts suggest efforts to have tech giants “battered by the National Security Agency spy scandal” move their sensitive data to Canada might have economic value but will “do little to concretely safeguard delicate personal information,” The Star reports.
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