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eweazel
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Canadians have right to online anonymity, Supreme Court rules

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Anonymity is key to Canadians’ right to privacy on the Internet, and as a general rule police are not permitted to disrupt that anonymity by asking Internet companies for information on their consumers without a judge’s authorization, the Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday.

“Anonymity is an important safeguard for privacy interests online,” Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote for a unanimous court

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So I wonder what this will do to Harper's "Privacy invasion" bill?
resa1983
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said by elwoodblues:

So I wonder what this will do to Harper's "Privacy invasion" bill?

If it gets passed as is, someone would challenge it, end up going to SCC, & SCC would probably overrule parts of it. But that'd still take a few years.

But at this point, it'd look silly for them to pass this bill as is considering this new decision.

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said by elwoodblues:

So I wonder what this will do to Harper's "Privacy invasion" bill?

He will probably come out with a law that goes around this like the did with the Prostitution ruling.
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Breaking:
"Senate appears to have paused 3rd reading debate on S-4, Digital Privacy Act. Will review SCC ruling, back on Mon"

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said by resa1983:

Breaking:
"Senate appears to have paused 3rd reading debate on S-4, Digital Privacy Act. Will review SCC ruling, back on Mon"

That's awesome

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said by resa1983:

said by elwoodblues:

So I wonder what this will do to Harper's "Privacy invasion" bill?

If it gets passed as is, someone would challenge it, end up going to SCC, & SCC would probably overrule parts of it. But that'd still take a few years.

But at this point, it'd look silly for them to pass this bill as is considering this new decision.

Do you honestly think he cares? It's always been my way or the highway, same with the prostitution bill, it's more then obviously unconstitutional, but it too will pass, and they'll wait for the courts to strike it down. Meantime, the bill stands.
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This is horrible! Now the police have to schlep down to see a JP or call in for a telewarrant which could take over 10 minutes of their time.

Anarchy will now prevail.
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Canadians have right to online anonymity, Supreme Court rules

Fuck, yeah!!!
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said by peterboro:

This is horrible! Now the police have to schlep down to see a JP....

No big deal.
The cops can always stop for donuts on the way.
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Locally I don't see too many cops at doughnut shops anymore. I see them parking under bridges and in industrial areas. I guess one picks up the doughnut/coffee and they gather in one place.

If I had the money for a lawyer I'd follow them, park next to them and video the whole thing.

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Would this also impact companies' rights to request log info from ISPs (e.g., IP addresses with respect to copyright violations via BitTorrent, etc.)? I mean, if the police need a warrant to request data from ISPs, then how could some media company just send a letter and receive it willy nilly?
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Michael Geist has weighed in:
»www.michaelgeist.ca/cont ··· 156/125/

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Harper must be seething this morning.. if he tries to pass his "Cyberbulling" bill, it'll get struck down immediately.

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Yeah that's what they are doing.

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i see them hiding in the Don Valley, in Taylor Creek Park's parking lot.
They used to hang out in the parking lot across from Weston Bakery on Eastern, but since the new owners gated it, they must have found a new place to hide.
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This is an interesting comment from the Privacy Commissioner

»www.cbc.ca/news/politics ··· .2674793
"In particular, [the ruling] confirms that an immunity clause that protects a person who voluntarily discloses personal information to police does not in itself constitute any 'lawful authority' for the state to obtain that information under Canada’s federal private sector privacy legislation," Therrien said.
Wondering what that means towards ISPs in the past who have handed consumer information out already without a warrant. There appears to be are a lot of disclosures from Rogers and Bell that were done without a warrant.

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This is great news. Orwellian society will have to wait just a little longer...