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Toews’s ‘child pornographers’ gaffe aside, Bill C-30 has real dangers
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Feb. 23, 2011
the new bill, C-30, doesn’t invite police to monitor your every online move without a warrant. It does, however, require Internet companies – loosely defined – to cough up your name, Internet protocol address and a few other identifiers if the police ask for them, even without a warrant… “Investigations are going to change in character, to what we call fishing expeditions,” said Tamir Israel, a lawyer at the University of Ottawa’s privacy-minded Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic… What’s more, there is no guarantee that details uncovered in the course of this work will stay tucked away in police notebooks.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, rights
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