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Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by noughtme »

posguy wrote: post #13
stewx wrote: post #6

> 10. The Canada Revenue Agency has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the security of this Web site. We have used sophisticated encryption technology and incorporated other procedures to protect your personal information at all times. However, the Internet is a public network and there is the remote possibility of data security violations. In the event of such occurrences, the Canada Revenue Agency is not responsi…

Legal structures and especially state or state sponsored entities in Canada work much differently than in the US. The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance, titling a vehicle and driver licensing, whereas in the US no state handles car insurance, while titling a vehicle and driver licensing are not necessarily the same state organizations. This state sponsored vertical integration enables abu…

"Wild" meaning, the police can still impound your car at their discretion if you blow below not just the legal limit of 0.08, but below the warning limit of 0.05, or even 0!

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by generalizations »

stewx wrote: post #6

> 10. The Canada Revenue Agency has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the security of this Web site. We have used sophisticated encryption technology and incorporated other procedures to protect your personal information at all times. However, the Internet is a public network and there is the remote possibility of data security violations. In the event of such occurrences, the Canada Revenue Agency is not responsi…

What happens if you don't agree to the TOS? Pretty sure that means you can't do your taxes, and you'd get in pretty hot water as a result. To me, that implies that the Canadian government is forcing you to agree to this TOS, which further reduces its legal defensibility.

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by zx8080 »

originalcopying wrote: post #19
posguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legal structures and especially state or state sponsored entities in Canada work much differently than in the US. The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance, titling a vehicle and driver licensing, whereas in the US no state handles car insurance, while titling a vehicle and driver licensing are not necessarily the same state organizations. This state sponsored vertical integration enables abu…

I clicked > https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/xa9j3x/church_ to get > Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/nottheonion.

The post title is all what's remaining. It says:

> Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's ICBC pirate hat fight deepens

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

#24

Post by snapplebobapple »

scohesc wrote: post #17

This government is so shoddily ran (leaving individual party politics aside) - Canadians aren't holding their government accountable. They're too busy trying to survive inflation and the knock-on effects it continues to cause, while distracting themselves with media that tells them "it's okay" and "it's not that bad" Other boondoggled IT projects brought to you by the Canadian government include the Phoenix federal g…

you should consider donating to the Canadian constitution foundation (https://www.youtube.com/@theCCF) then or something like them because our constitution actually does have a decent protections for separation of power between provinces and the federal government and getting that back to what is actually in the constitutional documents (as opposed to what has been twisted by decades of bad decisions to favor the federal government) would go a long way in creating the kind of competitive multi-polar environment that keeps America strong vs the uni-polar corrupted junk that Canada has increasingly become.

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by greenshackle2 »

generalizations wrote: post #22
stewx wrote: post #6

> 10. The Canada Revenue Agency has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the security of this Web site. We have used sophisticated encryption technology and incorporated other procedures to protect your personal information at all times. However, the Internet is a public network and there is the remote possibility of data security violations. In the event of such occurrences, the Canada Revenue Agency is not responsi…

What happens if you don't agree to the TOS? Pretty sure that means you can't do your taxes, and you'd get in pretty hot water as a result. To me, that implies that the Canadian government is forcing you to agree to this TOS, which further reduces its legal defensibility.

You can still mail in paper forms.

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by [deleted] »

noughtme wrote: post #21
posguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legal structures and especially state or state sponsored entities in Canada work much differently than in the US. The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance, titling a vehicle and driver licensing, whereas in the US no state handles car insurance, while titling a vehicle and driver licensing are not necessarily the same state organizations. This state sponsored vertical integration enables abu…

"Wild" meaning, the police can still impound your car at their discretion if you blow below not just the legal limit of 0.08, but below the warning limit of 0.05, or even 0!

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Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by chucksmash »

posguy wrote: post #13
stewx wrote: post #6

> 10. The Canada Revenue Agency has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the security of this Web site. We have used sophisticated encryption technology and incorporated other procedures to protect your personal information at all times. However, the Internet is a public network and there is the remote possibility of data security violations. In the event of such occurrences, the Canada Revenue Agency is not responsi…

Legal structures and especially state or state sponsored entities in Canada work much differently than in the US. The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance, titling a vehicle and driver licensing, whereas in the US no state handles car insurance, while titling a vehicle and driver licensing are not necessarily the same state organizations. This state sponsored vertical integration enables abu…

> The DUI checkpoints up in BC are wild too, I'm glad they are banned in Washington and Oregon. Suspicionless stopping of cars en masse followed by interrogation by police seems like an overreach.

I was just wondering about these (in the US) the other day. When I was growing up, I seem to remember them being a thing and going through them as a passenger but in 20+ years of driving, including on NYE/July 4 and late at night, I've never come across one.

Are there still states doing these?

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by scohesc »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #24
scohesc wrote: post #17

This government is so shoddily ran (leaving individual party politics aside) - Canadians aren't holding their government accountable. They're too busy trying to survive inflation and the knock-on effects it continues to cause, while distracting themselves with media that tells them "it's okay" and "it's not that bad" Other boondoggled IT projects brought to you by the Canadian government include the Phoenix federal g…

you should consider donating to the Canadian constitution foundation ( https://www.youtube.com/@theCCF ) then or something like them because our constitution actually does have a decent protections for separation of power between provinces and the federal government and getting that back to what is actually in the constitutional documents (as opposed to what has been twisted by decades of bad decisions to favor the f…

Thanks, I'll definitely take a look!

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by wging »

originalcopying wrote: post #19
posguy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legal structures and especially state or state sponsored entities in Canada work much differently than in the US. The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance, titling a vehicle and driver licensing, whereas in the US no state handles car insurance, while titling a vehicle and driver licensing are not necessarily the same state organizations. This state sponsored vertical integration enables abu…

I clicked > https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/xa9j3x/church_ to get > Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/nottheonion.

You can't see the underlying link? It's visible on old.reddit.com: https://www.richmond-news.com/highlights/church-of-the-flyin....

Re: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

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Post by tremon »

stewx wrote: post #6

> 10. The Canada Revenue Agency has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the security of this Web site. We have used sophisticated encryption technology and incorporated other procedures to protect your personal information at all times. However, the Internet is a public network and there is the remote possibility of data security violations. In the event of such occurrences, the Canada Revenue Agency is not responsi…

What's interesting to me is that they provide assertions about themselves in the TOS. How is any user going to verify those statements?
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