Canada’s Digital ID plans “uncomfortably close” to Chinese social credit By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa A constitutional rights group has blasted the federal government’s plan to create a Digital ID infrastructure as a threat to Charter rights and a step towards implementing a Communist China-style social credit system. In the report titled Canada’s Road to Beijing, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) outlines how China’s mass surveillance system operates and in what ways a national Digital ID system is a step towards authoritarianism. “What Canadians need today is not more unmitigated government access to private information but, instead, a renewed commitment...