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Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet

Posted by samzenpus on from the sign-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist reports that last week the Ontario Provincial Police, one of Canada's largest police forces, recommended legally ending anonymity on the Internet. Noting the need for drivers licenses to drive or marriage licenses to get married, the police suggested that an Internet license that would reveal all users is needed to address online crime. The Canadian Supreme Court strongly endorsed a right to anonymity earlier this year."

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  1. Licenses That Are Missing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) License to speak in public
    2) License to read a specific book
    3) License to speak to a specific person

  2. Re:ROFL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This was the Ontario provincial police and not the RCMP.

    I doubt this will go anywhere. This appears to be a statement made by someone with no grasp of the technical issues being blown way out of proportion.

  3. Re: ROFL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    People who post anonymously are cowards.

  4. Luckily most of Canada ignores Ontario by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And, for that matter, Communication is a Federal responsibility under the Canadian Constitution, which has strong privacy rights that the Ontario Police and the PM hate.

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  5. The REAL issue here.. by MagickalMyst · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real issue has nothing to do with anonymity; it has to do with police being properly trained.

    Our society is degenerating to the point where the police are no longer the noble, chivalric knights that they were once intended to be. Proper police training is quite lacking and is on a continual downward slide, and many people no longer have respect for the boys in blue.

    Too many cops in Canada are racist, egotistical power-trippers with a badge and a gun.

    Law Enforcement should be more concerned with setting the right example by doing the right thing.

    Police are supposed to be there "to serve and protect society", although the last word is strangely omitted on the police cars.

    "To serve and protect" is ambiguous; it begs the question "who are you serving and what are you protecting?"

    It should be obvious, but modern police behaviour would suggest otherwise.

    Perhaps the first thing to do is to fix the writing on the wall, so to speak.

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