Comments on: Canadian Surveillance Legislation Dissected – Bill C-47

By: Darin Cowan

Darin Cowan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:02:20 +0000

This is a terrible piece of legislation, even as bad legislation goes.

By: Peter Hillier

Peter Hillier — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:19:27 +0000

One other point to note. It’s also very interesting that all of a sudden this is an appropriation bill, the Crown is funding infrastructure and fees for time when the Telco’s have been adamant about not complying. What deals have been struck?

By: Peter Hillier

Peter Hillier — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:18:02 +0000

Besides all the obvious issues you’ve touched on, and I’ve participated in for years with the two predecessors, isn’t it interesting how much more liberal this Conservative bill is than the two previous liberal bills?

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:34:48 +0000

[...] legislation that was recently presented by the Canadian conservative government (full details on bill C-47 available here, and C-46 here) is that police can require ISPs to hold onto particular information, whereas they [...]

By: Masthead Editorials Critical of Canadian Surveillance Legislation

Masthead Editorials Critical of Canadian Surveillance Legislation — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:59:40 +0000

[...] of surveillance technology on the ISPs in Canada. We’ve looked through Bill C-46 and Bill C-47 to find that out. While the editorials have pointed to evidence in Canada that police are actually [...]