Privacy Is the New Wilderness We Must Protect

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Why Canadian law needs to protect ambient privacy

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Privacy was something that used to be taken for granted.
In communication terms, privacy meant that only the addressee could open letters or telegrams and telephone operators would not listen in to conversations.
In Canada, the vast majority (92 per cent) of Canadians have expressed “some level of concern about the protection of privacy,” according to a 2018-2019 survey conducted by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
In “Privacy Is the New Wilderness We Must Protect” Maciej Ceglowski calls for an updated concept of privacy as a public good if we are to save our rights as individuals in today’s digital world.
Ceglowski calls this ambient privacy — “the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered.
Canadian federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has argued for a law with a “rights-based foundation.” Privacy should be “more than a set of technical or procedural rules, settings, controls and safeguards, but a fundamental right and precondition for the exercise of other fundamental rights, including freedom, equality…and democracy,” Therrien told the annual International Association of Privacy Professionals’ symposium held last May in Toronto.
“Events of the past year have highlighted like never before the urgent need to modernize the way privacy rights are protected in this country,” said Therrien, referring to the scandal in which Cambridge Analytica siphoned off personal data from millions of Facebook users without their consent and used them for political purposes.
An investigation conducted by Therrien’s office has determined that Facebook has committed serious violations of Canadian privacy laws

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