Senator calls on Rubio, Blanche to push back against Canadian surveillance legislation
Senator Ron Wyden has urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to press Canada to abandon a surveillance proposal that Wyden says would exploit American technology infrastructure to conduct surveillance.
Why this matters: When one country builds surveillance tools on top of American tech, U.S. companies and networks become part of the system whether they agreed to or not. That is not a foreign-policy abstraction. It means American infrastructure quietly doing the work of a foreign government's surveillance apparatus. Wyden is asking the Trump administration to push back, which is notable given how rarely surveillance critics find common ground with this White House. The real issue is that technology does not respect borders, and neither does the liability for what it enables.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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