Canadian Police Want New Internet Surveillance Tools

danomac writes "Police agencies in Canada want to have better tools to do online surveillance. Bill C-30 was to include new legislation (specifically Section 34) that would give police access to information without a warrant. This can contain your name, your IP address, and your mobile phone number. This, of course, creates all sorts of issues with privacy online. The police themselves say they have concerns with Section 34. Apparently, the way it is worded, it is not just police that can request the information, but any government agent. Would you trust the government with this kind of power?"

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Think of the cost...

[Anne Thwacks]

A story not many minutes old //yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/28/0531250/cash-strapped-states-burdened-by-expensive-data-security-breaches tells us that the majority of US states cannot afford to keep data secure, and also cannot afford the cost of keeping it insecure.

The obvious conclusion is that keeping data is very expensive and you should be trying to find ways not to keep more, not finding reasons to hold more!

Do not want

[Anonymous Coward]

This law comes up for debate about once every year or two and, to date, Canadians keep shouting it down. Hopefully people up here continue to do so. I'm fine with the RCMP having access to this information with a warrant, but warrantless access by anyone is a bad idea.