Almost every other week I get a email for “xyz company” saying the same thing.

“Your data has been compromised because our network was accessed by a outside third party.”

I wonder how all this information stored by companies for over a year will now be protected, it will only benefit nefarious actors, scammers, and more then likely the company selling the data to third parties like ad agencies to regain costs of storage.

Wait, I can get someone else to pay my homes electric bill?!

If you can, send a email to voice your opinion regarding bill C-22.

If you oppose this bill you can. Use the follow template as a start.

Email: gary.anand@parl.gc.ca

Subject: Say NO to Bill C-22!

Hello Gary Anandasangaree

I’m writing to ask you to oppose Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, and call on the government to withdraw it entirely.

Bill C-22 would require internet providers, messaging platforms, and cloud services to build and maintain surveillance capabilities inside their own systems — capabilities that create serious security risks for every Canadian. We already know what happens when governments mandate these backdoors: state-backed Chinese hackers exploited similar loopholes in the United States in 2024’s Salt Typhoon attack, compromising millions of people’s private communications.

C-22 doesn’t just replicate those vulnerabilities: it greatly expands them. It would compromise a much wider range of digital services. And it does something that compromises everyone’s safety and protection privacy both online and in-person further: companies would be forced to store a full year of metadata about every Canadian — records of where we go, who we contact, and when we did it — without us ever having been under investigation. Everything from which family members you talked to, conversations with your therapist, if you talked with your lawyer potentially exposing what you discussed.

The limited safeguards C-22 contains are both overly narrow, and are compromised by a clause that lets future governments reinterpret basic terms like “encryption” and “systemic vulnerability” by future regulations, with no parliamentary debate required. That means the very limited protections in this bill are only as strong as the government decides they are, on any given day.

Bill C-22 cannot pass in its current form. Please join me in calling on the government to withdraw it in full.

Sincerely, Your name here Your address here with postal code

Yay!!! /s

Its never been able age verification, its been about identity verification.

All this data collection is to build a verified user profile on you for tracking purposes, it’s not about protecting the kids. It’s about tracking everyone everywhere online.

Not anymore, it’s a slopp-machine.

Was talking about Google search… Lmao

Well fuck

I too would like to know more. Jellyfin has been something that I am still hesitating to expose online without a VPN.

I have Plex behind a reverse proxy (HAproxy) with Crowdsec and firewall rules all behind Cloudflare. My firewall rules in HAproxy block access a few different ways, like if request are higher then 60 requests a second, or if there is strange path traversal. Used the following guide as a start.

https://www.archy.net/building-a-native-fail2ban-with-haproxy-stick-tables/

This just in, Canada post and other mail providers will now be opening all envelopes and packages sent. All contents will be scanned or photographed and held on file for 2 years time, and released to relevant authorities upon request of investigation. To make things easier please do not seal packages or envelopes for easier and more convenient access.

All photos and scanned documents will be held in a highly secured database with easy backdoors access!

Pretty much the equivalent in terms of what Canada wants to implement with access to signal chats, VPN logs, and asking ISPs to keep logs for 1-2 years minimum.

Somehow our politicians don’t seem to see the similarities between sending a message online vs sending a physical envelope in the mail. Also, in both cases a person could encrypt their messages/letters if they choose leaving regular folks with less security.

So this means all those corporations and companies trying to get off the hook legally by blaming AI are actually liable! Yay!

Looks interesting, but I am cautious of uploading any photos to a cloud platform.

Ultrasonic sounds (above 20 kHz) can cause physical symptoms in humans, particularly at high intensities ((>75\text{ dB})), including headaches, dizziness, nausea, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), and fatigue

Animal studies have demonstrated internal tissue alterations at specific frequencies and intensities

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/ultrasonic-exposure-effects-on-human-health

Here’s a short video that goes into the specific and how this affects surrounding neighborhoods.

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

This line from the article about DOGE still trying to shift responsibility to ChatGPT.

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

“There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it. …There is not a scintilla of evidence that Fox or Cavanaugh, having obtained a “DEI” rationale from ChatGPT, undertook any meaningful review of whether that rationale made sense.”

And this is why I support cyclists and pedestrians having as much right to roadways as a person that chooses to drive their car.

I just sideloaded a applications on windows using a .exe and running through the installation wizard. Microsoft must hate me for not using the Windows Store /s

https://homebox.software/en/

Honebox a simple home inventory management software

Windidn’t

Flock cameras can also pickup conversations of people passing by, let alone the massive amount of other privacy concerns with these being owned by third party companies and how extremely easily hackable these cameras are.

IMO, I don’t see how people in Toronto can support these cameras, especially since Ontario in general had speed cameras removed, and those as far as I know were police operated.

TBH it would probably make more sense to install the speed cameras back, those only captured photos as opposed to 24/7 recordings.

Some links that you might find useful:

Find locations of flock cameras: https://deflock.org/

How hackers can use flock cameras to monitor and stock neighborhoods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

Video that is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

Edit: Went down a rabbit hole.

Toronto’s speed cameras were owned, operated, and maintained by Verra Mobility (specifically through their subsidiary, Redflex Traffic Systems (Canada) Limited). This is a Arizona-based company. While the City of Toronto selected the locations and processed the tickets. I can’t seem to find any clear info on how the data was processed or how the system was secured.