Comments on: Canada’s Lawful Access Legislation: Civil Rights and Privacy Concerns http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/24/canada%e2%80%99s-lawful-access-legislation-civil-rights-and-privacy-concerns/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Hillier http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/24/canada%e2%80%99s-lawful-access-legislation-civil-rights-and-privacy-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-706344 Peter Hillier Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:40:08 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=9735#comment-706344 I'm curious to understand what investment the TSPs will have to make to conduct the unlawful intercept? It was my impression that Bill C-47 was written as an appropriation Bill to placate the ongoing concerns of the TSPs about the costs by ponying up taxpayers dollars so we could fund our own lack of privacy. I'm curious to understand what investment the TSPs will have to make to conduct the unlawful intercept? It was my impression that Bill C-47 was written as an appropriation Bill to placate the ongoing concerns of the TSPs about the costs by ponying up taxpayers dollars so we could fund our own lack of privacy.

]]> By: crf http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/24/canada%e2%80%99s-lawful-access-legislation-civil-rights-and-privacy-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-705489 crf Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:15:35 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=9735#comment-705489 What I don't like about the law is the potential to constrain the development of the internet. Entities like todays "ISPs" are the method of connecting to the net today. But the internet's architecture doesn't necessitate this. If all communication on the internet must be interceptable and monitorable it will mean that something like centralized ISPs must always be the method of connecting to the net. An analogous 16th century-style law might be that all printing presses must be registered and made known to the king, and the king may at any time monitor what is being printed. Such a law today, applied to print, would be seen as an anachronistic non-starter (it would apply to anyone with a computer printer). Anonymous printing would be illegal. But most people don't understand the internet, and are swayed by fears of internet child porn and hackers. What I don't like about the law is the potential to constrain the development of the internet.

Entities like todays "ISPs" are the method of connecting to the net today. But the internet's architecture doesn't necessitate this. If all communication on the internet must be interceptable and monitorable it will mean that something like centralized ISPs must always be the method of connecting to the net.

An analogous 16th century-style law might be that all printing presses must be registered and made known to the king, and the king may at any time monitor what is being printed. Such a law today, applied to print, would be seen as an anachronistic non-starter (it would apply to anyone with a computer printer). Anonymous printing would be illegal. But most people don't understand the internet, and are swayed by fears of internet child porn and hackers.

]]> By: David Scott http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/24/canada%e2%80%99s-lawful-access-legislation-civil-rights-and-privacy-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-705447 David Scott Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:56:31 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=9735#comment-705447 Although, I personally am so far to the left that even the democrats appear to me to be "right-wing," I consider myself to be a strict constitutionalist. It is my opinion that since its inception there has been an organized and systematic assault by the conservatives in the United States on the civil liberties written into the US Constitution. The “War on Drugs”; “War on Terror”; “War on Communism” and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People--an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence. I invite you to my website devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on freedom: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/ Although, I personally am so far to the left that even the democrats appear to me to be "right-wing," I consider myself to be a strict constitutionalist. It is my opinion that since its inception there has been an organized and systematic assault by the conservatives in the United States on the civil liberties written into the US Constitution. The “War on Drugs”; “War on Terror”; “War on Communism” and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People–an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence. I invite you to my website devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on freedom: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/

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