Online surveillance bill tabled in Canadian House of Commons

[moneoa]

A bill that would give police and intelligence agencies new powers to access Canadians' electronic communications, sometimes without a warrant, has been tabled in the House of Commons.

The proposed "protecting children from internet predators act" was introduced Tuesday by Stephen Harper's Conservative government.

The bill contains previously introduced provisions that would:
Require telecommunications and internet providers to give subscriber data to police and national security agencies without a warrant, including names, unlisted phone numbers and IP addresses.
Force internet providers and other makers of technology to provide a "back door" to make communications accessible to police.
Allow police to get warrants to obtain information transmitted over the internet and data related to its transmission, including locations of individuals and transactions.
Allow courts to compel other parties to preserve electronic evidence.

However, according to a tweet from University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, who has been closely following the issue, the list of telecommunications subscriber information that is to be made available without a warrant is smaller than in previous versions of the bill, which all died as a result of federal election calls. The list still includes a subscriber's name, address, telephone number, email address, IP address and local service provider identifier, Geist wrote on Twitter.

Public Safety Minister Toews is scheduled to hold a news conference in Ottawa at 12:45 p.m. ET with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Senator Jean-Guy Dagenais, likely to discuss the new bill.

Charlie Angus, digital affairs critic for the NDP and MP for the Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay, said his party is "against this bill" and will "fight this bill all the way."

"What's very disturbing in this bill is it's going to force cellphone providers, the telecom providers, to build in the spy mechanisms so that police and security can track you any time they want," he said at a news conference following the bill's introduction.

He added that the government has not demonstrated any need for the proposed new powers, including the ability to get subscriber information without a warrant.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/...ance-bill.html

[moneoa]

Fucked up shit!

[kokanezub]

Dude this has been going on in USA since about 2002. It has been kept quiet but it has been happening. Look at the downfall of allot of p2p programs and how google already filters results.. I use Peerblock,Key Scrammbler, Comodo and TOR... Just to look at alternative news...

[Drew Wilson]

It's interesting. I've been personally fighting this since the very beginning of my entire online career. In the 7 years I've been against Lawful Access, very little has changed. The police chiefs are jerking off to this kind of law, the various privacy commissioners end up being livid and/or beside themselves that this is happening, consumer rights organizations fire up petitions to fight it, politicians that support it are always saying that it's to protect and/or save the children and the politicians against it tend to find the various arguments against it and it all more or less gets swept under the table by the mainstream media outside of a few initial mentions. The biggest change I've noticed thus far is that the awareness to such threats has really increased over the years. Before, it use to be a few of those elite "techno geeks" that freak out over it, but now, it's now more a part of the mainstream consciousness even if it's only a passing thought.