Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping

Matthew Skala writes "Bill C-416, recently introduced in the Canadian Parliament, would if passed require Internet providers to provide wiretapping facilities to law enforcement — without a warrant, and with 'confidentiality' requirements reminiscent of the secret-spying cases we've seen recently in the States. This new Act is a reprise of last Parliament's C-74, which failed when the Government's term ended. Coming back as a Liberal "private member's Bill" in a minority government, it will have little chance of success without cross-party support; but with the Conservatives in charge, all bets are off if they can find a way to claim it's about terrorism or child pornography."

you know ...

[boxlight]

Canadian speaking.

but with the Conservatives in charge, all bets are off if they can find a way to claim it's about terrorism or child pornography

It's comments like this that I find really anti-productive -- why do you assume that just because the current government is conservative that it's *not* about terrorism or national security?? Believe it or not, we conservatives are not interested in invading your private space, go live your life and have fun -- but we DO care if you die in a terrorist bombing or if your kids get raped and photographed by some perv.

Believe me, I don't want to live in Nazi Germany, but I don't want to die in a subway bombing either. Let's stop the partisan stuff and find a balanced solution.

Re:crypto

[garcia]

When are people going to start using basic encryption (or better yet onion routing and strong anonymity)? There are technical solutions that make all this surveillance useless. We must implement steganographic techniques too so that there's no way to block the crypto.

We can't get people in the US to care enough to vote against politicians who are interested in curtailing freedoms. Hell, these people WANT to be "protected". You think that we are going to get them to start learning to use software to protect against something that they have been brainwashed into believing they want?

These are the same people that buy a new computer to stop their spyware problem instead of installing Firefox and some other simple software to stop it. Yeah, not gonna work.

Re:you know ...

[Anonymous Coward]

riiiiight, no partisan stuff, unless it is stephen harper accusing liberal parliament members of being terrorists with no proof, then that's ok!

FYI, i refuse to give up my liberty for safety. i would rather risk the miniscule chance that i will be killed by a dumbass terrorist than run the guaranteed chance that the police will be able to scan everything i do on the internet without a warrant