Alphabet Inc. executives confirmed on Tuesday that recent amendments to Canada’s proposed data-sharing legislation do nothing to address the tech giant’s core fear that law enforcement is trying to muscle in on its territory.
The proposed bill, which would grant authorities streamlined access to citizen data currently held by private companies, has drawn fierce opposition from Google. Representatives for the search monopoly stated that while they fully support the concept of knowing exactly where every Canadian is at all times, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney is attempting to appropriate this information without doing the hard work of tricking users into accepting a 40-page terms of service agreement.
Alphabet executives stressed that allowing police to bypass the digital advertising market to obtain tracking data sets a dangerous precedent for corporate sovereignty, noting that user privacy should only be violated by entities capable of serving targeted banner ads.
We have spent two decades and billions of dollars building a vast, inescapable panopticon, and now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police just want to waltz in and download it.
Loring added that if Canadian law enforcement wants to read citizens' private emails, map their daily commutes, and log their midnight search queries for digestive ailments, they should have to build their own hardware ecosystem and pre-install un-deletable apps on it like a respectable enterprise.
At press time, Google had offered the Carney administration a compromise in which police could access the complete psychological profiles of all citizens residing in Ontario, provided the investigating officers first sit through two unskippable ads for a mobile fantasy game.