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Canada Unveils Internet Surveillance Legislation

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the evil-legislation-and-other-tales-of-woe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist is reporting on his blog that the Canadian government today introduced new legislation that would require ISPs to establish new surveillance controls to monitor Internet activity. The bill will also require ISPs to disclose subscriber information without a warrant. The bill may not survive given the state of the government, but this is a sad indicator of things to come."

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  1. Silly Canadians by Cytlid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Need a law to create "intercept legislation".

    Some of us techies know it as "packet sniffers".

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    FLR
  2. coincidence? by Foktip · · Score: 5, Funny

    why is it all the nasty canadian bills end in the number "4"?

    C64... evil copyright stuff
    C74... insane spying stuff

    1. Re:coincidence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      More importantly, how did they get this far on only 73 laws? It's got to be bloody anarchy up there.

    2. Re:coincidence? by whogben · · Score: 4, Funny

      Thats because Canada is 90% good guys, and every tenth bill they let their hair down and do something crazy (evil!) Kinda like buy 9 burritos get the tenth covered in evil.

  3. Re:No right to privacy by bhirsch · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's in the first amendment of the Declaration of Independence. Duh.

  4. Shame on Canada! by Eli+Gottlieb · · Score: 1, Funny

    Times have changed,
    People are getting worse.
    They won't obey FOX News, and
    They just want to hack and blog.
    Should we blame the media?
    Or blame society?
    Or should we blame the RIAA's lawsuits? NO!
    Blame Canada! Blame Canada!

    With their beady little eyes,
    Their flapping heads so full of lies.
    Blame Canada!
    Blame Canada!
    We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault!

    Don't blame me, for my son Stan.
    He saw the darn porno and now he's off to join a gang!
    And my boy Eric once,
    Had my wallpaper on desktop,
    but now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself.

    Well, Blame Canada!
    It seems that everything's gone wrong since
    Canada came along.
    Blame Canada!
    Blame Canada!
    They're not even a real country anyway.

    My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true!
    Instead he burned out as an OSS evangelist.
    Should we blame the keyboard?
    Should we blame the screen?
    Or the Slashdot which he read every day? Heck, no!

    Blame Canada!
    Blame Canada!
    With all their free-speech precedents and that bitch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada!
    Shame on Canada!

    The smut we must stop,
    The trash we must smash,
    Laughter and fun,
    must all be undone.
    We must blame them and cause a fuss,
    Before somebody thinks of blaming us!

  5. Oh Canada! by slashbob22 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh Canada!
    My online spying land!
    Telco intercept at CSIS's command

    With packet sniff and account info
    The True North now South and "free"

    From net and mobe,
    Oh Canada, we foil(*) our heads for thee.

    ISAKMP our tunnels to the free(**)
    Oh Canada, we foil our heads for thee

    Oh Canada, we foil our heads for thee!

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    *
    a) Tin Foil - Aluminum Foil has been shown not to work.

    **
    a) Patch to avoid DOS
    b) Avoid tunneling to the US or China both have stronger anti-communication laws


    Canadian Government Information Site

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    Proof by very large bribes. QED.
  6. that's it! by idlake · · Score: 2, Funny

    With this sort of BS happening here, I'm moving to Canada. No, wait...

  7. Re:Like this'll pass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    NDP is the Never Dominant Party