A legal advocacy group says the federal government’s proposed Digital Identity Program is prone to being used to access private information and increase control over people, drawing comparisons to Beijing’s social credit system.
Details of the program were revealed in a report titled Canada’s Digital Ambition 2022, published on the federal government website on Aug. 4. The report cites Canadians’ increased reliance on digital platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic and notes that the government established the digital ID program to deliver its services through “modernized and accessible tools.”
