A 19 year old teenager was charged with 'unauthorized use of a computer' after downloading over 7,000 records from the Nova Scotia Freedom-of-Information web portal. The teenager whose name has not been released, has been accused of stealing documents from the portal, with many of them being publicly accessible and redacted.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 23 2018, @11:07AM (3 children)
This really looks like a joke. Stuff's on public display, so the kid looks at the stuff. Then he's arrested for looking. Has Russia expanded their gulags to Canada now? Or, North Korea? I don't know if China is that bad . . .
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 23 2018, @03:49PM (2 children)
Depends whether you consider harvesting dissidents for organs [wikipedia.org] is bad.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @01:54AM (1 child)
Do you mean harvesting the organs of convicted criminals? That's great!
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:44PM
I mean, they're basically convicted of practicing yoga. If you think that's a good excuse for a death sentence...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"