Government requests for Canadians’ Google data have jumped ten-fold in past five years
Government submitted 2,327 requests for user data in 2021, up from 249 in 2016
2 Feb 2023 • 6 min read
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Xavier Richer Vis
Xavier is a Toronto-based journalist and a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London’s master’s in digital journalism. He first joined the IJF as a data-scraping volunteer. His work has appeared in Wired.
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