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posted by n1 on Sunday November 20 2016, @03:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the balls-in-your-court dept.

A CBC investigative series is reporting:

Most Canadians feel strongly about their right to privacy online, but a new poll shows the vast majority are willing to grant police new powers to track suspects in the digital realm — so long as the courts oversee the cops.

Nearly half of the respondents to an Abacus Data survey of 2,500 Canadians agreed that citizens should have a right to complete digital privacy. But many appeared to change their mind when asked if an individual suspected of committing a serious crime should have the same right to keep their identity hidden from police.

Respondents were significantly more willing to grant police powers if a court order was required.

Police used to request subscriber information hundreds of thousands of times a year, but that changed in 2014, when the Supreme Court ruled that in the absence of a specific law, police requests to phone and internet companies amount to a search and therefore require a warrant.

Police compare it to looking up licence plate information, which doesn't require permission from a judge.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:30AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:30AM (#429831) Homepage

    Yes, in the sense that there was a government-wide shift in law enforcement profiling shifting investigation priority from immigrants with known ties to terror and arms smuggling to White middle-class males.

    Which means that in only a few years Canada will be a third-world country with tents and filth all over the sidewalks of vancouver, with "refugees" cleaning their anuses in your public drinking fountains while you, mister White man of French origin, will be demonized as a racist for refusing to allow your wife to be a prostitute at a "refugee" shelter.

    The bright-side of all that will be that the Chinese, rather than the native Canadians, will have the most to lose when their inflated property values drop like rocks.

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