#1 Internet Bad Guy of Now
January 9th, 2012 • Uncategorized
Vic Toews. The biggest criminal of the year? Actually, he is Canada’s Public Safety Minister under Stephen Harper. Funny how you’d mistake him for a criminal if you were following the media this past month. So, how could this guy have a big affect on the internet and e-marketing? Well, for now let’s hope he doesn’t have an effect.
Vic Toews introduced Bill C-30 which would allow any “lawful authority” to monitor Canadians’ internet and emails and they would also be able to access any information from internet service providers and cell phone companies without a warrant. This “lawful authority” extends to police, as ruled by the judge.
The bill titled as, “The Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” is purposefully polarizing. “You’re with us or you’re with the child pornographers,” Vic Toews had stated to critics of Bill C-30 earlier this month. Is this a sick joke? Thankfully, this tactic of being purposefully polarizing created massive backlash from Canadian citizens.
This need to invade the individual’s right to privacy will change online marketing. People will need to become more invasive to be competitive. All information will be available online and through databases. This could mean that corporations will use corrupt methods to retrieve data through the use of police. All our data will be in one place! Do they really think hackers won’t be able to defeat the government’s security measures?
According to CIA, 80% of the population uses the internet in Canada. Do we really want to give the government and police access to almost the entire population of Canada? Not to mention, they would now have access to our personal texts. We already thought Facebook was bad enough.
With these new and upcoming “invasion of privacy” acts, the scope of internet marketing will drastically change. Now will technology evolve fast enough to defeat these dictatorial acts from our very own Canadian government? Definitely something to think about.