New Canadian law - Internet monitoring
Canada has finally joined the USA/UK and Australia for monitoring Canadian on the internet. I bet this will bring a lot of chatter on MWR iHub. Kanco SHs believe in full-disclosure and no fear to any monitoring.
Canada boosts police powers, alarms privacy watchdog
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A new law gives police stronger powers to track what Canadians do online, but raises concern from the privacy watchdog about "warrantless access to personal information."
https://news.yahoo.com/canada-boosts-police-powers-alarms-privacy-watchdog-223111805.html
The Conservative government says the draft law it unveiled on Tuesday aims at hunting down pedophiles or other criminals by giving police, the country's spy agency and the Competition Bureau increased access to customer data from Internet service providers.
Law enforcers will no longer need a warrant to ask internet providers to hand over "identifying information" such as names, addresses, email addresses, unlisted phone numbers and IP addresses.
Ottawa says it is simply modernizing its crime-fighting tools and notes that that similar laws are already in place in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.............