Global: While government officials insist the data that would be collected does not include actual online content like search histories or emails, and that the metadata itself can only be collected by investigators through a judicial warrant, experts warn the retention policy alone is concerning.
“The government’s building this massive haystack of data with the thought that they might need to find the needle every once in a while,” said Michael Geist, a professor at the University of Ottawa and the Canada research chair in internet and e-commerce law…