I think one of our concerns is that it's unclear what publicly available means. We would love to have that addressed through the amendments to Bill C-59, so that it is really clear on exactly what these things do or don't mean so they aren't left to law enforcement to interpret themselves. With publicly available information, unless it explicitly says that people are not allowed to purchase commercially available information, to purchase huge datasets, then, as far as we're concerned, that's still a possibility and a real concern for us.
We would put forward the idea that the ability to Google everything and start recording all of those datasets is problematic. Collecting that mass amount of information, in general, is of concern. Additionally, proactively purchasing and growing those datasets without any direct targets, without any clear suspicion or motivation is really concerning as citizens who are trying to live our lives, who are feeling like we are victims or targets or suspicious actors in our own state. The ability to engage as a citizen is really hard to do without putting a lot of information on the Internet right now. Feeling like anything you put out there is now also being proactively collected and stored by your own government is quite terrifying.