70 leading Canadians, civil society groups ask Carney to protect Canada's 'digital sovereignty'

These recommendations don't go far enough.

Every Canadian should have the right to easily disable telemetry in the devices they've purchased and own and any attempt by the likes of Google, Apple, Microsoft or Facebook to circumvent this choice, to make it more difficult than it should to fully disable, or to unjustifiably tie it to functionalities that don't need it should be met with substantial and effectively deterring punishment.

The Shopify techbro gang is nowhere to be seen on this letter. Good.

He won't, it is not in his best interest to do so. Yes we need to try to get him to do this but don't hold your breath his master's still control him.

Yes. YES! FUCK ME YES!

I'm sure Carney would be happy to, so long as by "protect Canada's 'digital sovereignty'" you mean giving up sovereignty to the US and Trump.

Yes to all the other stuff but please let the Online Harms Act stay dead. Just because all the other countries are jumping blindly off a bridge to protect the children doesn't mean Canada needs to follow them before they've even hit the rocks below.

I think you posted it twice in this community. Or I'm seeing things.

I have personally stopped using the book of Faces, I have stopped using Reddit, I have closed my twitter account. I have no idea if I have any open Microsoft accounts, I been working on closing my iCloud account most of the stuff is off of there. I stopped paying for all the US streaming things. I only have 2 remaining gmail accounts, one for removing myself from physical spam it can closed soon, and one for youtube. I have changed my search engine from Google to Ecosia, I do not know if they have stopped using Google for search yet and started using the EU search database.

I use 2 pihole’s to block most of the trackers and ads, I use Unbound as my mDNS server and a Canadian DNS server (do not remember which one). I currently use Unwatched to watch youtube, as it blocks ads. Soon I will have the parts to build my media PC, it has an ARM CPU and a Mali GPU as I did not want to pay for an x86 CPU or a new Apple computer.

I moved my blog from a US server to a Canadian one and changed it to a .ca TLDN. I have moved my cloud data to a Canadian host I have more than 160 pseudo random email addresses to block advertisers.

In short I am doing my best to protect my digital sovereignty.