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Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives voted to introduce digital IDs for porn users
This week, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre raised eyebrows after affirming his party’s support for controversial legislation introducing a digital ID system to verify the identity of anyone accessing pornography on the Internet. Genuis’ office did not respond to multiple requests from PressProgress seeking to clarify what that “incentive” is or elaborate on why he trusts companies to collect and store information such as the names, home addresses and viewing histories of Canadian porn website visitors. It’s unclear how a digital ID verification system would work in the context of porn companies located in foreign countries where the personal data of Canadians could be subject to loose privacy laws or vulnerable to malicious actors.
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