We must be constantly aware of which hard-won liberties we've surrendered to government. That way we'll remember to take them back.
Adam Gordon is an international human rights lawyer based in Ottawa, and a former Masiyiwa-Bernstein Human Rights Fellow for the U.S.-Asia Law Institute of the NYU School of Law. He is the co-founder and co-director of Human Rights Together.
Two problems have dominated the discussion. The first is that these measures, once passed into law, may never be rescinded. In such a scenario, the right to monitor our phones, originally meant only as a response to COVID-19, would remain on the books, and the government would quietly go about finding new ways to make use of it. The second problem is that using these policies may create a precedent for the use of similar privacy-infringing measures in future, lesser crises.
When the crisis of this pandemic begins to pass and life begins to return to normal, people’s minds will be on seeing friends and family, on going to restaurants and movies, on getting back to the office and rebooking that cancelled vacation. The last thing on anyone’s mind will be remembering to push the government on some forgotten-about surveillance laws that were passed months ago and that we, too, have grown somewhat accustomed to.
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