The Internet could become something that it was never intended to be

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Published on Thursday, 11 December 2014 13:22

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Canada’s privacy is at a tipping point: We can create the modern privacy safeguards that Canadians deserve, or we can get used to an Internet where our everyday Internet activities are stored and spied on.

We’re into our crucial year-end monthly donor drive: Our ability to keep fighting for your privacy depends on the success of this drive. Please join us as a monthly donor today, Mic.

My name is David Christopher, and I’m OpenMedia’s privacy campaigner.

Over the last year or so, you ha€™ve probably noticed me popping up in your inbox now and then.

My job at OpenMedia is to enable Internet users like you to participate in shaping new privacy safeguards that stop warrantless government spying on your online activity.

I'€™m writing today to ask you to consider signing up to be one of our monthly allies. Today is the start of OpenMedia'€™s annual monthly donor drive. The results of this drive are really important; it will determine the resources we have to run our privacy campaign for the next year.

2015 will be a decisive year for Canadians’ privacy rights. Either we establish the effective privacy safeguards Canadians expect and deserve, or we allow the Internet to become something that it was never intended to be: a tool for mass, warrantless government surveillance.

Government surveillance is already out of control. Instead of adopting common sense reforms, Justice Minister Peter MacKay is moving full steam ahead with reckless legislation that will actually give government authorities more power to monitor law-abiding Canadians like you.1

Our monthly allies provide the ongoing support we need to push back. Our campaign to defend the privacy rights of Canadians is only possible because people like you have signed up. if you can, please stand with us by joining our allies today.

Over the next few months, I’ll be working on an exciting crowdsourcing initiative, engaging experts and Canadians from coast to coast to coast. We’ll be working together to shape a positive, pro-privacy action plan.2

Pressuring decision makers with the recommendations that come out of this initiative will become the focus of our campaign: we know from experience that including many, many voices gives our message a legitimacy that’s impossible to ignore.

Together, we can create a digital future that safeguards and respects everyone’s privacy. But it starts with you. Please, take a stand in defence of your right to privacy, an increasingly important right in the 21st century, by joining our allies today.

For our right to privacy,

David, on behalf of your OpenMedia team.

P.S.: It was our monthly allies that tipped the balance in our fight to successfully defeat Vic Toews’ reckless online spying bill, C-30. When we started that campaign, it felt like we were up against impossible odds. But thanks to people like you, we convinced the government to shelve the bill. If we win on privacy again, it’ll be because of people like you. Please, Mic, join our allies today.

Footnotes:

[1] Carol Todd on Bill C - 13 “What Happened to Democracy?” Source: Michael Geist

[2] Our citizen-driven Privacy Plan. Source: OpenMedia

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We use the Internet to save the Internet. By uniting the voices of Internet users worldwide, we are building a community that is finding new ways to protect and nourish access, free expression, and privacy online.

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