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Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
Matthew Skala writes "Bill C-416, recently introduced in the Canadian Parliament, would if passed require Internet providers to provide wiretapping facilities to law enforcement — without a warrant, and with 'confidentiality' requirements reminiscent of the secret-spying cases we've seen recently in the States. This new Act is a reprise of last Parliament's C-74, which failed when the Government's term ended. Coming back as a Liberal "private member's Bill" in a minority government, it will have little chance of success without cross-party support; but with the Conservatives in charge, all bets are off if they can find a way to claim it's about terrorism or child pornography."
I can see it now... giant portraits of a mustachioed man, their captions all reading "Big Brother is watching you, eh?"
home brew kit = open source
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Mexico. The affordable police state.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
You don't agree that someone writing "fictional works" about the bombing of government offices, for pleasure, is someone who deserves to be, at the very least, monitored? That isn't exactly a healthy behaviour. Come on man, use common fucking sense. I think we can tell the difference between a serious literary work and a nut job's fantasy literature.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I really wish you folks up in Canadia would stop blaming Conservatives and Liberals and just
get out and vote Marijuana Party and legalize it already!
If the fascist government wants to monitor every phone conversation that would be fine
as long as they are high, they won't remember what you say anyways, thus preserving your
right to privacy!