In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net

The_AV8R writes "In a recent interview, Peter Van Loan, the new Canadian Public Safety minister, says ISPs should be able to provide private user information without a warrant. (The only example he gave was cases of child pornography; the interviewer pointed out that in these cases ISPs are already at liberty to divulge customer information without a warrant, but that the proposed rules would make that mandatory whenever the police ask.) He was adamant that in regard to IP addresses, names, cell phone numbers, and email addresses: '...that is not the kind of information about which Canadians have a legitimate expectation of privacy.' The minister denied — even when presented with an audio clip proving otherwise — that his predecessor had promised never to allow the police to wiretap the Internet without a warrant."

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In New York, No Expectation Of Privacy In Your Car

[damn_registrars]

... I was told by the kind deputy who pulled me over for talking on my cell phone.

Anything we can see you doing in your car, we can pull you over for

He so kindly said.

You have no expectation of privacy in your car in NY state

He said after that (his emphasis).