Privacy concerns, Government seeks access

[Tonington]

The Government has been holding closed door consultations to try to ease laws, making access to telephone and internet records easier. The proposed plan would give enforcement agencies access to these records without a court order or other legal justification. Just recently, a US judge ruled against aspects of the Patriot Act which violate a persons privacy.

More to the point, the government had been holding these consultations without input from civil liberty groups. Previous consultations on this issue were held with the government extending the invitation to these groups. The consultation was scheduled to end September 25, but with civil liberties groups only finding out this week, the pressure on Stockwell day, Minister of Public works has forced his department to lengthen the consultation period to allow these groups to bring forth their concerns.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=378b169e-036d-4ea8-9aba-8f10d7a570d6&k=77186

 

[Niflmir]

In light of these discussions, it seems that with phone lines the reason we were able to retain privacy was that monitoring all the phone calls of all citizens is unfeasible. However, with further computerization and the creation of heuristic, Bayesian oriented content scanners complete monitoring has become feasible; since computers would be analysing the majority of the data, privacy gets swept under the rug and monitoring can be "justified" in a "free and democratic" society.

 

[hermanntrude]

I've just heard from the government. They said they read our posts and they want us to stop. And they also said niflmir's wife is hot in the shower

 

[lone wolf]

It's pretty easy here in Canada - a suspicion and a Court Order. They sure didn't ask my permission for the tap in the week or so following 9-11....

Wolf