Canadian Law Would Allow Email Interception Without Court Order
Canada's federal cabinet will review legislation that would allow police and security agencies to intercept emails, text messages and possibly even financial transaction information found in websites that are protected by secure passwords.
A draft version of the bill allows the police to demand information from Internet Service Providers and intercept emails without first obtaining court authority. Police would be permitted to contact ISPs and require them to provide data relating to their client files within 30 minutes. Under current Canadian law, the police must obtain court authority before intercepting and recording telephone calls, and it is unlawful to intercept and open letter mail.
As reported here earlier, a similar provision proposed for the USA Patriot Act was dropped from consideration after drawing criticism.
Posted by Steve Chung
I am completely astounded?! Do the American people have any privacy any more?! Do we have any rights or protection from this invasion of complete privacy? I am from the smaller city of Eau Claire, and I am disgusted that the law enforcement agencies already have the power to intrude on the simplest grounds.. of a "rumor" even if the source is not creditable. In Wisconsin it is lawful to easdrop, take photographs, follow, stop, search, seize and place subjects in confinement for hearsay. I am even more appalled as I continue to read articles such as the ones in this site that are in regards to losing our rights and any personal freedom or privacy. By allowing police and security agencies to intercept emails, text messages and possibly even financial transaction information found in websites that are protected by secure passwords is more than offensive and obtrusive. This all be the case for the Law, one can most definately bet the majority of each states population will be in jail on drug activity and charges especially in smaller cities with far fetching, at times malicious and even heavily biased and unlawful surrvailance, searches, arrests and seizures done by the local police and drug task forces. Many of those arrested have not been arrested with truthful, factual, objective or reliable evidence to consider it even proble that they are indeed committing a crime in view of the public and therefore damaging society. Furthermore, is the power and authority given to these law enforcement personel to confinscate any and all materials of the arrested and hold their personal property for a ridiculous amount of time upon their simple opinion or request that disgusts me. Is this not a violation of ones rights that officers can overtake and deny ownership and refuse return of ones property and belongings . Often is the case that any and all property that is valuable or essential for living is taken from the subject besides the actual matter involved (drugs and other illegal items). It is then nothing short of a battle to locate, assert your own ownership of materials, money and other property that was taken without your consent and without factual and proven criteria for them to take them from the person in the first place. the loss of ownership to the property that is seized in the arrest and the subjects rights are not considered, valued, respected, honored or even heard.
..if your'e suspected, no doubt soon arrested, hardly respected and so easily convicted.