Canada and the rest of the democratic world are facing a “tsunami” of transnational and digital repression with the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S., the arrival of artificial intelligence and a softening of attitudes on human rights, according to a respected Canadian cyber-research group.
The director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy issued the chilly warning in a presentation to be delivered Monday to a House of Commons committee studying transnational repression.
I agree technology inches us closer to a surveillance state every day but The Munk School suffers compulsive onanism.
