Online Privacy and the Police
Submitted on January 1, 2012
By Kimberly Croswell - December 23, 2011
It won’t be long before Canadian privacy laws regarding telecommunications come under attack again. These laws apply to technologies everyone relies on — from cell phones to the Internet. And as seen before, the federal government is likely to soon change them in a push towards facilitating on-line surveillance of individuals’ lives. If the government succeeds, it would mean on-line monitoring could be done without a warrant and other impingements on Canadians’ rights to privacy.
