Crooked in Canada

The Conservative government has introduced two bills that will give law enforcement more access to Internet communications and the personal details of subscribers.

While Crooked in Canada doesn’t have a problem with law enforcement having more resources than they already have to aid them with online CRIME, I have to wonder what the point is having access to personal details about a subscriber. Besides, it’s not as if they don’t already have the resources to do that.

They didn’t need the Internet 20 years ago to track somebody down, and they certainly don’t need it now.

The legislation Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan are proposing would:

• Give police access to an Internet subscriber’s name, street address, and email address without a search warrant.
• Force Internet service providers to freeze data on their hard drives to prevent SUBSCRIBERS UNDER INVESTIGATION from deleting what they say could be important evidence.
• Require Telecom companies to invest in technology that allows them to intercept Internet communications. In other words WIRETAPPING
• Let police remotely activate tracking devices already embedded in cell phones and some cars, to help them with their investigation.
• Allow police to obtain information about where Internet communications are coming from and going to.
• Make it a crime to arrange with another over the Internet the sexual exploitation of a child, something I wholeheartedly agree with by the way.

I don’t know what everybody else thinks, but the proposal sound to me like local police authorities are going in the SPY BUSINESS, and that is just wrong.  I can reluctantly accept forcing Internet service providers to freeze data to prevent subscribers under police investigation from deleting evidence, and I fully support making it a crime to arrange sexual exploitation of a child over the Internet, but the rest of the proposal, EFF THAT MATE!

Like I said, the feds already have the ability to do most of, if not all of what they are proposing anyway, and I am hard-pressed to believe that they don’t.

Enacting a law to allow law enforcement to do what they are already doing (Internet providers already co-operate enough with police investigations, albeit against their better judgement sometimes) is just going to be abused by police, federal MPs and anybody else who happens to be in the government’s employ.

Trust me; this law will used to launch a lot of witch-hunts against whoever they feel like. You will never convince me that somebody won’t abuse that legislation in law enforcement and civil servants in all departments of the government.

The legislation is BS, and is an attack on our right to privacy and free speech. As far as I’m concerned there is an ulterior motive behind this new legislation, and it has more to do than just chasing criminals.

Think about it for a minute, why would anybody put forth proposals that in one-way, shape or form, is already covered under Canadian law. And that “without a warrant thing,” don’t even get me started on that. Allowing the police to access information without warrants is just plain stupid, unless of course it comes down to matters of national security, like terrorism for example.

No sir, I do not and will not support the Conservative government, or any other government for that matter who introduces such legislates what Van Loan and Nicholson are proposing.

Governments already that kind of access they want and without legislation to protect them, I might add.

Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about, but I am sure of one thing; something doesn’t feel right about this proposed legislation. I’m suspicious of the government’s motives. What do you think about it?

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