Canada Unveils Internet Surveillance Legislation

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."

Comments

Silly Canadians

[Cytlid]

Need a law to create "intercept legislation".

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

coincidence?

[Foktip]

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

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

Re:coincidence?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:coincidence?

[whogben]

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.

Re:No right to privacy

[bhirsch]

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

Oh Canada!

[slashbob22]

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

that's it!

[idlake]

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