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Secret Memo Slams Canadian Police On Inaccurate ISP Request Records

Posted by samzenpus on from the tip-of-the-iceberg dept.

An anonymous reader writes Last fall, Daniel Therrien, the government's newly appointed Privacy Commissioner of Canada, released the annual report on the Privacy Act, the legislation that governs how government collects, uses, and discloses personal information. The lead story from the report was the result of an audit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police practices regarding warrantless requests for telecom subscriber information. Michael Geist now reports that a secret internal memo reveals the situation was far worse, with auditors finding the records from Canada's lead law enforcement agency were unusable since they were "inaccurate and incomplete."

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  1. Short answer ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lazy, incompetent, and don't want actual oversight.

    So they have sloppy record keeping, because they don't give a crap, and because they have been getting what they want so why bother.

    The solution: take away the ability to get this crap without oversight, and let these clowns fall on their face.

    If they won't abide by the law and the rules, they get nothing.

    This is a classic case of law enforcement not giving a fuck about the law and their legal obligations. Which means you have to distrust them and treat them like children, otherwise they'll just keep abusing us and our rights.

    This is precisely what happens when police have sweeping powers and nobody is keeping tabs on them.

    It's time to stop giving these idiots the benefit of the doubt, and assume they're lying to us and crapping on our rights -- because, apparently they are.

    Unfortunately, the clowns who make up government are keen to give them even more powers with even less oversight