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Canadian ISPs Could Take On Big Brother Role
QGambit writes: "C|Net is reporting that the Canadian Government is considering a proposal that would force ISPs to keep logs of web browsing for up to 6 months, allow police to get search warrants allowing them to find 'hidden electronic and digital devices' and ban the possession of computer viruses.
Canada and the U.S. have both endorsed this proposal, contained in a cybercrime treaty of the Council of Europe. Both countries are non-voting members of the Council.
George Radwanski, Canada's privacy commissioner has not yet commented on the proposal."
I think the idea is to add to their list of possible violations to write someone up for.
They do a bust at a "warez site" and could then slap more charges against them. Or to take down some grey hat security site. More rules to hit people with.
We are keeping Internet logs.
(We are at war with Eurasia.)
We have always kept Internet logs.
(We have always been at war with Eurasia.)
Ignorance Is Strength? Maybe.
But who is made the stronger through ignorance?
I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.
I guess it's pretty obvious, I need to set up as many old crufty computers as I can on my home network, and set them to relentlessly spider across the whole damn web. A few automated processes on a 3 megabit pipe ought to generate some pretty nifty monthly logs.
If the goverment is gonna search through my web-surfing logs, they're gonna at least have a hell of a hard time finding anything incriminating among all that pr0n! Nosy bastards, that'll teach them. If I feel particularly vicious I'll set one or two to recursively spider through Celine Dion's website. They'll go blind before they hit any good stuff.
"So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand it's bee backwash."
Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Which section does it violate? Section 8: "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure." is the only thing that comes close. I don't know if data retention counts as unreasonable search and seizure. And you will note that Section 33 (a/k/a "the notwithstanding clause") can exclude section 8, but I doubt that they would try to use it for this garbage proposal.