Canada's Online Surveillance Bill: Section 34 "Opens Door To Big Brother"

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 19, 2012 @08:11AM from the watching-you dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "Canada's proposed online surveillance bill looked bad enough when it was introduced, but it gets worse: Section 34 allows access to any telco place or equipment, and to any information contained there — with no restrictions, no warrants, and no review. From the article: 'Note that such all-encompassing searches require no warrant, and don't even have to be in the context of a criminal investigation. Ostensibly, the purpose is to ensure that the ISP is complying with the requirements of the act — but nothing in the section restricts the inspector to examining or seizing only information bearing upon that issue. It's still "any" information whatsoever.'"

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Slashdot's silly double standard by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-19 08:14 · Score: 0, Troll

Slashdot on Google: "They're just a friendly, do-no-evil web search company! I willingly hand them them all my personal data and believe every one of their apologies when there's another privacy intrusion!"
Slashdot on governments: "Down with Big Brother and his constant surveillance!"