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As reported by CBC's Liz Thompson here
The House of Commons will review all MP websites after an investigation by CBC News revealed that dozens of them have trackers that can be used to target advertising to people who have visited the sites.
... at least 99 had one or more trackers used to target advertising.
In a follow-up announcement, all MPs have now had links from the Canadian House of Commons website to their websites cut for the duration of the election.
The House of Commons has cut its links to the websites of all 334 outgoing members of Parliament after it discovered the sites of some MPs were being used to campaign for re-election.
A review by CBC News late Wednesday found that 87% of the websites for NDP MPs were automatically redirecting to the NDP.ca campaign site or MP re-election campaign sites with donation buttons.
It is illegal to use any government resources to get yourself (re-)elected in Canada. That includes web sites hosted by the House of Commons for sitting MPs.
My bet is that most MPs probably don't know that all those social media sharing icons are themselves trackers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 16 2019, @03:20AM (1 child)
Dear AC: I wish you were part of my RL communities. Please keep posting like this. This is the gold that makes it worth the effort to filter out the drivel-noise of bad actors.
Also thank you for your patience with BH. I hope she reads your comment. She doesn't seem to be interested in anything beyond pumping up her post score/karma/social credit, but maybe she can be course-corrected so those are in parallel with this community's best interests.
I too have been frustrated by her (and others, but she's egregious) watering down the conversation with conclusions that aren't neccessarily wrong but arguments which just don't hold, or priors which are problematic. Thank you for your patience and commitment to truth.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Monday September 16 2019, @05:50PM
I would take a centrist view instead of being solidly on the left. I'd be figuratively fellating Justin Trudeau instead of calling him out for being a corrupt liar, and a phoney feminist of convenience (and a really shitty negotiator).
A large part of Canada's domestic problems relate to 3 gaffes:
His blatant and repeated attempts to have criminal bribery charges set aside against SNC-Lavalin
His attempts to blame the justice minister, a woman, for not quietly going along with it
His lying on the public stage to China that Canada's justice system is not open to public meddling by politicians over the extradition of a Huiwei executive to the US while he was trying to do exactly that - manipulate the justice system.
He's currently blocking the rcmp from further criminal investigation, something that should have been unthinkable. Of course, this plays well in Quebec, which has a long history of corruption. According to the polls Quebec voters are lapping it up. Problem is, they don't like being called corrupt, same as they don't like when people point out the racist bill 21 Quebec passed.
Racism and corruption. Canada should be ashamed.
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