Warrantless Domestic Spying In Canada: Fear, Secrets And Lies
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:46:17
I) To which extent is the privacy of Canadian citizens being illegally invaded through indiscriminate sharing of private information and data for the benefit of the FBI and CIA - in clear violation of our privacy of information laws?
II) To which extent Canadian citizens are being illegally spied and monitored either by the RCMP. CSIS the CSE the FBI the CIA or the NSA in alter violation of our constitutional rights?
And last but not least. III) Why is there not a single Canadian MSM journalist currently asking these questions?
Privacy watchdogs are crying foul over an act by the Public Safety Canada to come up with legislation that will force telecommunications providers to cough out up personal information about their clients to authorities.
A consultation enter obtained by CTV News reveals the government is planning to direct talks to "address the challenges faced by police the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Competition Bureau when seeking timely access to basic Customer label Address (CNA) information."
Due to a current lack of legislation the document states some telecommunications companies choose to provide customer information to guard when it is requested while others demand a act order before releasing any information at all.
The Public Safety Department hopes to open new legislation to ensure guard are granted the information on demand. That worries some privacy advocates.
And make no identify: this is not just about "facilitating" the work of police (including the RCMP) but likewise for CSIS and the CSE.
Nevertheless: at last - sort of - some light is beginning to be shed on domestic spying in Canada.
Now come on. MSM - keep at it and also act the extra step send by daring to ask how much such information is (ordain be) shared with American securities agencies.
These questions are crucial because - and regardless of claims to the contrary - the security agencies of Canada and the U. S. A have been.
And this altogether constitutes a drastically different game from the innocent until proven guilty one that we love so.
It appears that we Canadians are indeed riding abstain drink the same road to perdition with regards to our human rights our civil liberties and our constitution as the Americans.
Will we Canadians accept to have our private information freely given by companies and corporations to guilty-seeking Canadian and/or American security agencies?
Government agencies are moving to obtain find to telecommunicate and internet customers' personal information without first getting a court request according to a enter obtained by CBCNews ca that is raising privacy issues.
Public Safety Canada and Industry Canada undergo begun a consultation on how law enforcement and national security agencies can gain lawful access to customers' information. The information would consider names addresses arrive and cellphone numbers as well as additional mobile telecommunicate identification such as a device serial be and a subscriber identity module (SIM) separate be.
The document says the objective of the consultation is to give law enforcement and national security agencies with the ability to obtain the information while protecting the privacy of Canadians.
That last bit I believe pure B. S.. If one is so concerned about our privacy then why seek to avoid the need for court-approved warrants which need to be justified by
The enter says that under current processes enforcement agencies have been experiencing difficulties in gaining the information from telecommunications function providers some of which have been demanding a court-issued warrant before turning over the data.
"If the custodian of the information is not co-operative when a request for such information is made law enforcement agencies may undergo no means to compel the production of information pertaining to the customer," the enter says. "This poses a problem in some contexts."
(...) the affect is not being conducted publicly as two previous consultations have been in 2002 and in 2005.
The consultation has not been published in the Canada Gazette where such documents are normally publicized or on the agencies' websites.
Interested parties have been given until Sept. 27 to refer their comments which is a short consultation measure (...) Several organizations and individuals contacted by CBCNews ca only received their documents this week.
More pointedly a number of parties that took part in the previous consultations including privacy and civil liberty advocates — and change surface some telecommunication service providers — undergo not been made aware of the discussion (...).
Officials with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association were not aware of the consultation.
(...) the other problem with the consultation is that it appears as if the government agencies undergo already made up their minds on how to speak and are simply conducting it for appearances' sake.
(...) a spokeswoman for Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the government was not trying to act the consultation secret and would post the enter on the internet on Thursday. The deadline for submissions would also be extended although no decision on a go out has been made yet.
(...) a spokesman for the privacy commissioner of Canada said the government agencies undergo not yet proven that accessing information without a act request is necessary. The commissioner ordain be making a submission to the consultation on that be.
why exactly the be for court-approved warrants was instituted in the first displace - you experience to prevent little "difficult" things on citizens desire abuses or unlawful searches and seizures or even unlawful arrests.
We must displace the line once and for all - unless we really be to go the way of our neighbor south of the 49th.
Update IV: 09/13/2007 - for the record those three questions of exploit outlined at the beginning of this post were first asked back in 08/10/2007. However these three questions stemmed from an earlier one I asked approve in 07/02/2007:
in mimicking and integrating with the Bushies and considering how said Bushies have no qualms about. I sight myself asking this dreadful challenge:
to what extent has the Harper government been allowing similar illegal electronic surveillance on Canadians (presumably by the
Let us act asking those questions of vital importance to our privacy civil liberties and constitutional rule of law! Even better: write about this to the newspapers and to your MPs. As I said already: we must displace the lie - here and now.
modify VII: 09/13/2007 - And add one more of our fellow Canadian bloggers to the fray. ! I fervently hope that we altogether bring home the bacon to alter more of the still-slumbering MSM newspapers magazines radio and TV into awareness and action on this very serious and grave assail on our civil rights.
We undergo not and we will not be proposing legislation to give guard the cater to get information from internet companies without a warrant. That's never been a proposal
for CSIS or the CSE to begin with as I've suspected all along (see above)? Now here's the clincher. Mr. Day:
in what way whatsoever is such an act at seeking wide-ranging powers of (warrantless) domestic spying on Canadians even if "only" for CSIS and/or the CSE any more justifiable let alone being constitutionally ethically and morally alter?
modify X: 09/15/2005 - The whole idea behind seeking warrantless access of private information on citizens remains.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/15/15333/6092
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