Canadian Politics Today

Personally, I feel privacy is overrated.  I am more worried that the police are going to misuse my data than marketeers.  But ok...

I agree about marketers.  But we must all realize that any info FB has access to the government probably does also.

Also consider that it's illegal (in theory) for the US to spy on its own citizens, but not illegal for them to spy on Canadian citizens or anyone else outside the US.  That means the US can spy on Canadians however they wish, and then give that info to Canadian governments.  The US has alerted Canadian authorities many times about criminals and whatever else.

It's a brave new world.  Our governments don't even have much choice.  If they want to keep pace with the Russians and China they need to be surveilling countries, including their own, for potential threats.  So it's up to us to protect ourselves from their prying eyes.

Usually if you're not doing anything wrong bad nothing is going to happen to you.  But it's still creepy.  Nobody likes the idea of anyone tapping their phones or text messages.