[kwlug-disc] have I ever told you guys that Facebook is evil?

[CrankyOldBugger]

If you guys are interested in the two big bills that are floating around
Ottawa right now, one about the internet and Cancon (I'm over-simplifying
here) and the other about users' privacy, then you should follow lawyer
Michael Geist (@mgeist on Twitter).  He's "the guy" when it comes to Cdn
internet/privacy/etc laws.

(I'm on Twitter at @rjeffsmith2010 if you're interested in ho-hum stuff..)


On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 1:50 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022, at 12:15 PM, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> > No one is gonna get fired over this.  So, don't worry about it.
>
> The Ontario Personal Health Information Protection Act
>
> https://www.ipc.on.ca/health-individuals/file-a-health-privacy-complaint/your-health-privacy-rights-in-ontario/
> gives me the right to
>  * be informed of the reasons for the collection, use and disclosure of
> your personal health information
>  * refuse or give consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your
> personal health information, except in certain circumstances
>
> In the early days, patients were asked to give informed consent,
> consistent with the law. I would be given a form to sign that explicitly
> mentioned that information was being collected, and that I had right of
> refusal.
>
> Now, nobody is being informed of the fact of collection, or of their right
> of refusal. This is prima facie illegal, according to the statement of
> principles on the web site I liked. And people don't care that their civil
> rights are being slowly eroded. "Don't worry about it", as you say. This
> process of civil rights erosion doesn't end well, it ends up with what's
> going on the United States, or worse. A generation of people are growing
> up, under a constant stream of propaganda from the surveillance
> capitalists, that privacy doesn't matter, and that privacy is the enemy of
> "convenience". And that worries me.
>
> Like for example, we just bought a new washing machine and dryer. The top
> selling brand transmits everything you do to the manufacturer over the
> internet. For now, this is opt in, but internet surveillance already cannot
> be turned off for a growing number of consumer machines and appliances. We
> bought a less popular brand with no surveillance, because that's something
> that's still available.
>
> Remember that Canadian government petition circulated earlier on the
> mailing list, about consumer data privacy and the right to repair? I signed
> it.
>
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