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Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦

@matthtfld.bsky.social
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Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.

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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 31/08/2026
@matthtfld.bsky.social, our executive director: "I don't think the full impact of AI and the customer care cutbacks have appeared in full in the numbers yet. The next year of CCTS reports are going to be brutal." 👉 Call Out the Broken Rogers-Shaw Deal openmedia.org/CallOutRoger...
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Call Out the Broken Rogers-Shaw Deal
Canadians were promised the Rogers-Shaw deal would benefit all of us. 3 years in, Rogers is falling short on jobs, 5G, prices, and service.💥 ISED has done nothing! Tell Minister Joly to act on what th...
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Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🇨🇦's privacy reform #BillC36 puts enforcement of our rights under the thumb of the AI Minister, not the Privacy Commissioner. ✊ Defend independent enforcement! Tell your MP to fix C-36! openmedia.org/DefendOPC-bsky @openmedia.org
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Fix Bill C-36: Defend the Privacy Commissioner
🇨🇦's privacy reform #BillC36 puts enforcement of our rights under the thumb of the AI Minister, not the Privacy Commissioner. ✊ Defend independent enforcement! Tell your MP to fix C-36! https://openme...
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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 17/06/2026
Wow. I didn't think things would sink this low. This is definitely Vic Toews level rhetoric. globalnews.ca/news/1190824...
“It’s time to choose. It’s a time to choose between victims of crime who are demanding that we, as parliamentarians, act to protect them. It’s the time to choose because law enforcement needs modern tools to fight modern criminals. Those tools are in Bill C-22.”

Anandasangaree’s comments echoed those of his Conservative predecessor Vic Toews in 2012 when the Harper government was pushing its own expanded lawful access bill. During debate in the House of Commons that year, Toews said critics “can either stand with us or with the child pornographers.”
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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 11/06/2026
🇨🇦 just released its 2026 online safety plan – and despite a smart duty of care foundation, it layers many bad ideas on top. Importing a social media ban for under-16s from 🇦🇺 that nobody thinks is working, and a potential age gate over large swaths of 🇨🇦's internet. openmedia.org/press/item/n...
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The Safe Social Media Act needs major fixes
Safety legislation is one step forward, two steps back
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progamergov.bsky.social @progamergov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Protest Against Bill C-22 June 13, 11:00 a.m. 2 Rideau Street Privacy is not a crime! #c22 #privacy #rights #cdnpoli #canpoli #encryption #metadata #1984 #protest #ottawa #canada #lawfulaccess
Protest Against Bill C-22
June 13, 11:00 a.m.
2 Rideau Street

SAY NO TO A SURVEILLANCE STATE. FORCING OTHERS TO SPY FOR YOU IS STILL SPYING. SUSPICIONLESS TRACKING. COMPELLED VULNERABILITIES. MANDATORY METADATA COLLECTION.
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Ben Dooley @bentdooley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon have unveiled Canada's AI strategy with plans for widespread adoption and data centres. GUEST: @matthtfld.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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Canada unveils its AI strategy
Podcast Episode · The Jill Bennett Show · June 5 · Bonus · 10m
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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 02/06/2026
Your personal data and political preferences — who protects that information from political parties and paid agents? No one! But Petition e-7237 calls for stronger safeguards. ✍️ Sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #cdnpoli @bcfipa.bsky.social @cancivlib.bsky.social sky.social
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sharing this *excellent* explainer by @lawfaremedia.org 's Isabel Arroyo on the current stage of digital age assurance definitions and laws. Bookmark it, it's a fabulous resource: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-r...
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To Read This, Please Upload Photo ID
A primer on digital age assurance methods and a survey of the laws—both enacted and proposed—requiring them.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This evening I did a shadowy No Kings training for ICE observers with a secretive cabal of 20,000 people who joined a recondite YouTube stream by following a clandestine public link.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Critiquing the F-35 purchase isn’t emotional, irrational anti-Americanism, as James Fergusson baselessly claims here. It’s based on a sound, rational understanding of how networked devices function. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. blaynehaggart.com/2025/03/08/t...
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The Department of National Defence buys a Sky Tractor
Canada’s purchase of US F-35 fighter jets will create enormous security vulnerabilities, for which there are no easy answers. Whether it’s an F-35 fighter jet or a John Deere tractor, i…
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Wherein I marvel at the symmetry of TikTok users being told, without proof, that China-owned TikTok was feeding them Chinese propaganda, and now here they are lacking confidence EllisonKushner-owned TikTok is not feeding them US propaganda. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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TikTok users “absolutely justified” for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say
TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.
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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 27/01/2026
TAKE ACTION: No tech for ICE! Today we're launching an action aimed at 🇨🇦 company Hootsuite 🦉, a registered B corp required to respect human rights... and somehow a company actively seeking a billion dollar "social listening" contract with ICE. Speak up here! www.openmedia.org/NoTech4ICE
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Tell Hootsuite: No Tech for ICE!
Hootsuite.com promised to cut ties with ICE in 2020. Now they’re seeking billion-dollar contracts to help ICE monitor social media. 🚩 As a B Corp, they should protect rights—not build surveillance too...
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
NEW: Microsoft handed the FBI the recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of three laptops encrypted with BitLocker. BitLocker is enabled by default in modern Windows laptops, but Microsoft also prompts users to upload the recovery keys to the company's cloud, which opens up this possibility.
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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: reports | TechCrunch
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
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Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
With whatever mildly ideological * they care to add, this should be the worldview of every Canadian leader. This speech is empirically correct, clear-eyed, and should define how we think of ourselves well above the daily political scrum.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Christ, I hadn’t seen the details here but it really is trying to set up a Temu UN with Donald Trump as Secretary General for life (and his hand chosen successor as Secretary General for life after that).
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Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace
No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Canada cannot stand by while Donald Trump uses tariffs and intimidation to pressure allies who are doing the right thing. Trump’s threats toward Greenland should terrify people and send a chill through every democracy. (1/4)
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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 19/01/2026
Today we're leaving X. If you're still there, we think you should consider leaving too. A word on why it is so difficult to leave collapsing platforms, why we're making this decision today, and where else you can find us: openmedia.org/article/item...
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We’re leaving X
A platform's freedom to operate is not a right to your attention.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/01/2026
President Trump is keeping proceeds from the first sale of Venezuelan oil in an offshore bank account based in Qatar, according to reporting from Semafor. The sale was worth $500 million. trib.al/ylz4Msu
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16/01/2026
Not solving the problem, monetizing it.
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Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Thinking the absorption of Greenland would be followed by extension of democratic rights to its citizens (who would immediately vote to leave) is a comical but dangerous failure of imagination. Not the Trump plan for Greenland. Not the Trump plan for Canada.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 13/01/2026
I was interviewed on the protests in Iran by Brianna Morris-Grant for @abcnewsbot.bsky.social in this new report: 'Fears of unseen violence against protesters as Iran's internet blackout enters a fifth day' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Iran using 'military-grade' jamming to take down Musk's Starlink
Human rights groups estimate more than 500 people have been killed and more than 10,600 arrested in the ongoing protests.
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Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Horrified by reports of thousands of people killed during the protests in Iran. These are people murdered by a tyrannical regime willing to sacrifice every last person in the country to stay in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/w...
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‘Shoot to Kill’: Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge From Iran
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates. share.google/J00lpWzPzOu2...
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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists
MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/01/2026
This is an astounding story, including Flock's typical reaction of blaming everyone else and refusing to take responsibility.
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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Trump's threat of a criminal indictment is a pretext for trying to strip the Fed of independence, Chairman Powell says. It is about whether monetary policy can be directed "by political pressure or intimidation." apnews.com/article/fede...
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Federal Reserve Chair Powell says DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about t...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/01/2026
a rather significant portion of the founding was based on “no guys like Donald Trump in particular” they really specifically wanted to avoid this type of know-nothing demagogue
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The response of the Trump regime in blindly defending the ICE shooter who murdered Renee Good is a warning to us all. They are telling you that Trump’s henchmen could literally kill you or your family for any reason and they will defend it. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/there-is-a...
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There is a straight line from Stephen Miller/Kristi Noem and ICE’s murder of Renee Good
The ICE agent must be prosecuted
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Two of the worst stories of this week merging together in the most grotesque way possible.
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Ben Dooley @bentdooley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Cell phone bills going up again? 📱💸 StatsCan says cellular service prices rose in Oct + Nov 2025 — the first year-over-year increase in ~30 months. Is the era of steep discounts over? @matthtfld.bsky.social on what’s driving this, and what it means for your next plan: pdst.fm/e/traffic.me...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/12/2025
“The rate of deaths per year in the correctional facilities has been on the rise even though the number of people being held in the prisons has declined, the records show. Last year the death count hit 144 — the highest number in the past seven years.”
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Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This has to be stopped. Now.
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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is a direct attack on the EU. The US doesn't recognize our right to have our own laws
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
another example of AI as tracer dye, exposing an already existing problem (and, of course, significantly worsening it)
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 10/12/2025
We're thrilled to host @petermusser.com , @mrpeterjulian.bsky.social and Kristen Gilbert from Options for Sexual Health TOMORROW at NW library, 6-7:30 PST. We're talking online misinfo - how it works, and what stops it. Join us live or online! RSVP here: action.openmedia.org/page/182609/...
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The Misinformation Moment: What’s at Stake for Canada?
Fake news, algorithms, digital tricks—what’s at stake for Canadians? 🤔 Join The Misinformation Moment panel Dec 11 at New Westminster Library & explore The Glass Room. Free + hybrid! 🌐
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
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