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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Addresses 'Lawful Access'

Posted by michael on from the prying-eyes dept.

EvilAlien writes "The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has commented on the federal Government's Lawful Access proposal calling the proposed legislation "a grave, needless and unjustifiable deterioration of privacy rights in our country". Canadian news sources have covered the comments, bringing the issue to the forefront of public awareness. For discussion on the Lawful Access Consultation, see the earlier Slashdot story in YRO."

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  1. Re:america doesn't care about canada by Embedded+Geek · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I think your title is a little harsh, but your point is otherwise disturbingly accurate. I'm an (US) American but have glanced at a map of North America once or twice in my day. I find it interesting that our president (no, I didn't vote for him) keeps talking about the UK as "our most important friend" when in fact the countries that meet that description are to our north and south. Nothing against the UK, but if Canada had the SAS or Mexico had a few aircraft carriers floating off the coast of Iraq, maybe the current administration's short attention span would be piqued.

    Of course, one of the sad proofs of your post is the location of this whole story - buried under the YRO topic and not on /.'s font page.

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  2. Re:america doesn't care about canada by sdjunky · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "...just like no U.S. news source mentioned the softwood logging tariff..."

    You mean like this?

    I understand that that is old news but we do get some Canadian related material even if it is few and far between.

    However, I must agree that Americans can be extremely US centric in their news. I see quite a bit of world wide information in news.bbc.co.uk but nothing like that on CNN. However, I must say that we have news that doesn't quite make the limelight that is US based that I feel should so it's not just Canadian news that is pretty much ignored.