The government's privacy reform bill is not credible due to its history of undermining privacy through measures like age verification, metadata retention, and weak rules for political parties.

The government will promise to make privacy a fundamental right in a privacy reform bill coming tomorrow. But it’s not credible on privacy when it actively undermines it through lawful access, age verification for millions, and weak rules for political parties. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/privacy-as-a-fundamental-right-the-governments-terrible-privacy-track-record-suggests-virtue-signalling-over-a-genuine-commitment/

The government is tabling privacy reform today. That’s overdue, but its privacy track record is terrible: mandated age verification for millions, mandatory metadata retention, weaker privacy rules for political parties, and sidelining the Privacy Commish. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/privacy-as-a-fundamental-right-the-governments-terrible-privacy-track-record-suggests-virtue-signalling-over-a-genuine-commitment/