The government’s effort to convince parliamentarians to lower the threshold for the searching of cell phones and laptops at border crossings is based in “the fiction that data is a good that we import like any other, and it is not,” according to a research fellow at Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. 

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