bill c-30
C-30 may be dead, but you have every reason to worry about your privacy
Ottawa’s data leak policy remains: don’t ask, don’t tell, as Jesse Brown explains
Privacy commissioner denies Internet surveillance compromise with police
Jesse Brown on why the online spying bill made a comeback
Could Toews’ bill have stopped Magnotta? No, but something else could have.
Time to drop the fantasies around bill C-30
The slow, quiet death of Vic Toews’ Internet surveillance plan
The Conservative party has quietly shelved Bill C-30, the Internet surveillance act Toews once asserted was vital to cracking down on kiddie porn. The bill is unlikely to resurface before the summer recess. In fact, it may never come back at all, wrote John Ibbitson in Tuesday’s Globe:
How Arizona tried to make it illegal to say mean things online
Lawmakers continue to display an embarrassingly low level of media and technological literacy
As the privacy fight turned ugly, democracy made a comeback
While a certain amount of electronic surveillance is justified, the possibility that such information could be made available without a warrant should be of concern to every Canadian