Governments around the world are using the COVID-19 pandemic to justify greater censorship and surveillance on the Internet, says a report published by Freedom House in the United States.
Yet Internet freedom in Canada remains extremely good, the report says.
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At CTV News, Solarina Ho and Mahima Singh report:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/covid-19-eroding-global-internet-freedom-canada-among-the-most-free-report-says-1.5145180
Read Freedom House’s report — Freedom on the Net 2020 — here:
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2020/pandemics-digital-shadow
News byte courtesy: R. Franklin Carter