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Proposed Canadian Law Would Allow Warrantless Searches
An anonymous reader writes "A bill introduced by Canada's Minister of Public Safety will allow police to (warrantlessly) force ISPs to provide access to any requested digital traffic records, reports News 1130. Police lobbied for the bill as means of 'combatting gangsters, pedophiles, or terrorists,' but apparently they find the legal principles of judicial review and probable cause, as well as a constitutional provision against 'unreasonable search or seizure', to be too much of a hassle, and would rather be able to search anyone's web or e-mail traffic at their own discretion and without any oversight. All in the name of public safety, of course."
Think of the children, eh?
Why yes, only those with something to hide have anything to fear!
Cana ... oh, ummm, crap, now I'm in trouble.
I am officially gone from
.. from which to look down my frost-bitten nose at the suckers having their rights taken away down south. Now i'm putting up with bad weather for no good reason!
Doesn't our government understand a fundamental principle of governing a country with a predominantly harsh climate like Canada: we must do everything significantly better than our neighbours to the south to prevent brain drain.
It would have been even better if they pitched the idea under the pretense of going green by reducing the amount of paper used.
"You want us to get a warrant? Do you know what the carbon footprint of a warrant is? Why do you hate the Earth?"
Of course. Also, this is how they plan to catch the perpetrators of the Conficker virus/worm/whatever. Canada will soon be a global hero!
(More sarcasm)
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Its gotten to the point where I'm inherently distrustful of anyone that claims to want to protect me from terrorists, or want to protect children.
So true, so true.
On the other hand, I inherently believe anyone who claims to want to harm children.
The enemies of Democracy are
The Reform Party was also called the Canadian Alliance and probably another name or two [...]
I believe the other name to which you refer is the Canadian Reform Aliance Party, or C.R.A.P.