48 Replies to “Liberal Spyware”

  1. Bought some glassware at Stokes the other day. Filled out some form for “contract tracing” without thinking about it. Should have walked out of the store telling them “I will not shop here” as soon as they said those words; “contact tracing”.

    1. Or you could just put down ‘Justin Turdeau’ or ‘Dumpy Chrystia’ or ‘Climate Barbie’ or somesuch.
      You have no idea just how much reloading powder Wendy Cukier has bought over the years…

      1. Yearghh

        By the code methinks yer strategy has much ta favour.
        I see a path to go on a filibuster.

        Bosn mate, oist the pennant and splice the main brace, we’ve got a enterprise afoot.

        Shiver me timber’s else …. arrgh

    2. I give fake names anywhere that requires contact tracing forms, even at those establishments that know my name and address.

      That being said, I live close to four small towns and a resort village. I know of only one business that does contact tracing forms in those communities. Most if not the rest of the restaurants, bars, and stores in our region don’t enforce mask use or social distancing. We still help ourselves to beer and liquor when staff is busy. Hell we still smoke in some of these places, and get served booze nearly 24 hours a day. When we can’t get served or don’t feel like paying stupid amounts of money, we socialize and party in one of our shops or garages which have basically become modern day speak easies.

      We had no use for government regulations prior to covid, it’s hard to believe Moe and his Liberals in disguise actually thought we’d obey even more unnecessary and over bearing nanny state rules.

  2. Thanks, but no thanks. What idiocy. I don’t think Stokes would have done this without a push from government. The “contact tracing” is truly sinister. Canada is looking worse than many places on this march to totalitarianism.

    1. I suppose it surprised me, because that is the first time it ever happened. I was unprepared. It is like the one time a scammer got lucky on me. I had just filed my tax return, and a got a “text from CRA” soon after. Without thinking, started in on it, then “wait a minute; CRA doesn’t send texts”. Then I forwarded it to the RCMP scam thing.

  3. I use a fake name and a fake phone number with a Saskatchewan area code. So far none of the virtue signaling shop keepers has noticed I am using an out of province area code.

  5. The Liberal Cult doesn’t mind doing anything for Dear Leader, he so wunnerful!

    Millenial Liberal fans, think they are so intelligent cuz they are TikTok and Instagram experts.

    Dumb as a tree in the real world, but hey, they can sure virtue signal with best of them!

  6. There are always, in population everywhere, those that are the low life scum of the earth.
    They like to snoop, intrude, interfere, encroach on your everyday proles. They really get their jollies that way.
    It is almost a guarantee that they are watching every post on this blog.
    Don’t care, they can go and swim in their swamp, with any luck on the part of the proles, they will drown in it.

    The idiot in charge can’t be blamed for this for he knows not what is it that he is doing. Apparently the handlers did not have time to write a script for him yesterday so he run away instead of answering questions.

    Anyway, it is rather sad where we are heading. The mass media/political confab like to wallow in dirt, always have.
    Thinking here, that is why there are not real actual people that do actual real work for living running for political office. The media cartel, the political low life and their police helpers have probably something on every person alive. Does not matter how nothing it is, the media cartel will take care of the spin and destruction of their target.

    None the less, the proletariat will elect the so called “Liberals” as the next government of this country.
    So then there is that.

    1. Lev, ” the media cartel will take care of the spin and destruction of their target.”
      My immediate thought was, yeah, 90 grand on Duffy raised Cain in the media, but 940 million on WE, and it’s meh! SNC Lav meh! Jody Wilson Reybold meh! We truly are screwed!

      1. Don’t forget Wafergate! The MSM wouldn’t even take the priest’s assurances that Harper ate the wafer. Compare and contrast to the Turd being forced to leave his part-time, substitute drama gig halfway through the school year with cheques and NDA’s flying everywhere.

  7. L – Surveying for data will be obsolete when the fed. gov’t. app knows more about you than you
    do or thinks it does. Looks like it may know enough for contact tracing, too.

    The fed. gov’t. won’t need to send out census forms, anymore. As for the number of people living in the residence. Heck, they’ll know that your wife is pregnant before you do, and if you are the father or not.

    Any derogatory comments about Chairman Trudeau and his regime will result in you and
    your opinion being quarantined in a gov’t. approved/contracted concentration… err
    quarantine facility. Every thing the app. collects adds/subtracts to your Social Credit Score. (C.C.P.).

    HAL 2.0 from 2001 is back, like a B grade Hollywood horror movie plot.

  8. Yep. They tried that on me here in CA … give us all your personal information … and we’ll tell you if you get near any COVID positive person at COSTCO …

    Uh. No.

    Only stupid people believe you’ll catch the COVID from casual, passing, exposure. Stupid.

    1. even if you do catch it, it is a little snot and blat like all flu’s……

      1. Heck. I’m 68 years old and had it and didn’t even know it. My wife is a ER nurse ans she got it, but i didn’t. Granted she was as you said. Head cold and nothing more. She got tested and then I got tested and came back that I had it, but iI now have the antibodies.
        O-well

    2. Kenji, Well, stupids also know you can get STD’s from casual passing sex, so from their perspective, Covid could be gotten too! …right? Personally, I haven’t come across any casual passing sex at Costco or anywhere else for that matter….sigh.

      but you never know, soooo better safe than sorry, but boy we are all sorry now, anyway!

  9. I knew it’d be used inappropriately the second it was announced. No way if sign up for that crap.

    1. 100% agreed!
      No frigging way I want ANYONE tracking my movements. My eyes were opened about a year or two ago when Google sent me an email listing everywhere I had been the previous month. I immediately turned off the location setting on my phone and now only turn it on if I need to use google maps.

      1. Mr K. if only that were it. Any android phone constantly reports it self cell tower by cell tower and triangulated, so with location services off, they have you to about 30 ft instead of 3 ft, as an example. With the phone off, it still records that, and spews out the history as soon as you turn it on.

        1. You can request from Google all the information that they have collected from you. It is quite easy to do. The file you get is in excess of 10 gigabytes. I invite everyone to give it a try. You will find it fascinating/disturbing/horrifying.

      2. Ok… Seems to me that if you have any kind of smart phone bought since 2010 (iOS or Droid), + use Google..you are already being tracked 24/7.

        Ive been toying with the idea to resurrect my Z30 BlackBerry…. May need to do that sooner n later. I can live without Apps.

  11. The app that the feds claimed (advertised no less) would tell you that the person next to you is infected. So six million sheeple fell for it.

  12. Lol imagine thinking someone with a smartphone has any shred of privacy remaining.

    1. Only if … the government allows Apple to spy on its iPhone users with impunity. Which they do … because they want that data too. Don’t worry though … Heiress-Biden will prevent that.

      1. If you think the government doesn’t have all the data that Apple and Google have, then I have a bridge to sell you.

  13. Meh.
    The census is of exactly the same quality.
    Complete confidentiality,for true…
    I figure there is no point even filling it in.
    First “Fill it in Online” ?
    From the same asshats who allowed thieves to access Revenue Canada’s data ??
    Second.What is the point?
    Assuming Stats Canada could actually produce an accurate data picture of Canada and Canadians..I mean just pretend for the sake of this argument,that they are competent ..What good will that data do anyone?
    For our Politicians are numeric morons and our bureaus are parasites and thieves..
    So what possible use ,of benefit to a taxpayer, could accurate information about the state of the nation make to either group ?
    Given their activities are entirely self interest or ideological..
    Ignorance is their chosen position.
    I am just helping along.
    Data mining and massive theft of private citizens information is a natural path,for the parasites seek to find any untapped sources of revenue they can..
    Kind of reminds me of Monty Python’s TV show,”Blackmail”.

    1. John, maybe the census can tell us if there is a single independent business still operating in the communist backwater that canada has become.

    2. I filled out the census for both my apartment in Edmonton and my house in Fort St. John.

      Yesterday, I got a postal reminder to fill out the census because, according to the blather on the front, a delay will make the whole process more expensive. Considering that it was done on-line, I gave the government the benefit of the doubt and started the whole process again.

      Guess what? The response I got was that my original submission had been received.

      Now get this: census day was May 11. The reminder was dated May 12. The reminder was redundant. Can anyone explain to me how the government saved money by doing this?

    3. John – have as a client a company which – back in the day – was in an industry that Stats Can was targeting. For a few years, was able to ignore because owner had two corps and they were after the wrong one. Finally Stats Can homed in on the right corp. Did the survey once and took more time than I thought reasonable. Next year, ignored same until got a phone call saying this had to be done. Told the rep on the other end that I was not prepared to work for free for the government, given that she and her confrères all had good paying jobs, and that neither was I willing to stick the owner of the company with the cost of said survey. Advised her that I was prepared to put 15 minutes into gathering data and filling out return, and that would be it.
      Had a few more years of the same survey, spent 15 minutes each year filling it out. Eventually Stats Can gave up on us.

  14. 6 million terminally stupid canadians. There really is nowhere to go with this added insanity.

  15. When stores like Walmart ask for personal information like my postal code, I reply that that information will cost two plastic bags.
    If they ask for a donation, I reply that Walmart can donate their plastic bag sales
    Does Walmart (and other businesses) donate their tax break from their donations provided by their customers?

    1. I say ‘No thanks”. Or “A1B 2C3” as it’s the first postal code in the list. I’ve also given “Aaron Aardvark” as a name for the same reason.

      I also reply “No thanks for the e- receipt. I don’t have email and like to collect bits of loose paper” with a grin. They never know what to make of that.

      I was in LCBO on Sat and the teller was asking everyone if they wanted to make a donation to MADD. I wanted to say I don’t support those totalitarian, neo-Prohibitionist hags but he was clearly told to ask; not his fault and no need to dump on him.

      Guess I make a great internet customer.

      mhb23re

      1. I’m like you, mhb. When I get asked for my postal code or to donate to some cause at a retail store, I say “no thank-you”. I used to be much ruder than that but my wife helped change that. Lol!!

      2. Back in the day, when every business had those funky credit card machines, I was frequently asked for my phone number. Always managed to make it totally illegible.

      3. “no need to dump on him.”

        You would not be dumping on him, you are providing him with useful information which he can use or pass on to management.

  16. When one thinks of it, is there any real privacy anymore?

    I’m not talking about governmental or company intrusion. What about people who volunteer information that is best kept private? Out loud? In restaurants? On various forms of social media? We are living in an age of announcement.

  17. An app sponsored by a government only slightly left of Adolf “I am a socialist “ Hitler and Joseph “We will take care of you” Stalin.

    An app that exploits your phone that has your personal information, contacts, GPS, WIFI, Bluetooth, and more.

    An app that will speak of whether you have Wuhan flu and where you are.

    What bad thing could possibly happen?

    1. OOT, Not being technically proficient with stupid smart phones, or is that, smart stupid phones? I had my daughter remove all the apps. A personal tiny protest against a giant invasion of privacy I know, but at least I feel better about it anyway!

  18. Stats canada suggests about 24.5 million canadians are between ages 15 and 65 as of 2017. The government is claiming less than 7 million people have the “app” since it came out 11 months ago. It’s not going that well for them I’d say.

    That said, those goons have made enough public pronouncements about “opportunities” and “passports” and total control of the country’s finances for two years to make a claim of data gathering more than plausible.

    What do you think, guy who’s monitoring our comments? Am I close?

  19. Fuck the government.
    The security agencies backstop government power & corruption and don’t give a shit about the citizenry or their fundamental, existential rights. The CRA & Stats Canada gather information so the bureaucracy can make decisions on how to further control and manipulate the masses while enriching themselves.
    Whenever I hear some cunny say, “The government should do something!” I want to jap-slap them. They are doing something. And then some.

  21. Even if the Federal COVID app could be designed to be perfectly safe and privacy to be perfectly protected, it never worked properly in any case….

    “As of April 8, 2021 Health Canada said the app had been downloaded 6,455,311 times.
    However, only 25,552 people have voluntarily input their one-time key to notify others around them after testing positive for COVID-19, according to data from Health Canada.”

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/majority-of-canadians-not-using-covid-alert-app-study-finds-1.5382744

    Hanlon’s razor is a principle or rule of thumb that states “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.

  22. At quick glance this is very similar to the ap our Australian Government was pushing really hard as the solution to everything back in about May/June 2020.
    It was largely ignored/rejected by the public and the Government quietly pretended they were never pushing it in the first place.
    The flaw with this system is it doesn’t really track what YOU are doing and who YOU come in contact with, it tracks what other phones your phone has been in contact with. So if you have to leave your phone at reception when you visit a company and they lock your phone with some other random phones then you phone might swap data with the phone of a person you were never in the same room with.
    Our IT dept warned us about this.
    Also told us that if you work in a ‘no WiFi or BluTooth allowed’ office then the ap was pointless.

    What we do have in my home state here in Oz is one of those scan tracking things we are meant to use each time we enter a venue. This – apparently – stores our movements for a max of 2 weeks – apparently – so IF there is a runny nose the Government can go all police state and track our contacts. If you don’t have a phone you are expected to sign in with name and phone number.
    Frankly no one really cares. You can hang around and watch and most people don’t really care and most venues – unless the Police State is threatening to audit and fine them – don’t stress too hard.
    The flaw in the scan system is there is no law in my state to force you to carry a phone. So if you are really concerned about being ‘asked’ to scan in you just start leaving your phone in your car when you shop. Then if they do push you you can always agree to manually sign in using pen and paper. I mean if your post keyboard hand writing is really really messy then it is a fault of society, right?

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