{"id":1919,"date":"2012-02-16T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T05:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2012-02-16T00:05:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T05:05:29","slug":"we-will-entertain-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"“We Will Entertain Amendments”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to concerns about privacy<\/strong> and judicial oversight<\/strong>, the Conservative government has stated that they would be open to amendments to Bill C-30<\/a> in committee.<\/p>\n

Cited as the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act<\/em><\/strong>, this bill enables the RCMP<\/strong>, Canadian Security Intelligence Service<\/strong>, Commissioner of Competition<\/strong> and police services<\/strong> through-out Canada access to subscriber information without warrants whilst investigating offenses under their mandate.<\/p>\n

On March 9th, 2011, a joint statement<\/a> by the federal and provincial privacy commissioners of Canada<\/strong> was issued in response to the previous proposed legislation. And the concerns listed in that statement and in the October 26th, 2011 statement<\/a> issued by the Office of The Privacy Commissioner of Canada<\/strong> remain with Bill C-30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately there is also some concern in regards to the interpretation of evidence and preconceptions related to certain activities, like the use of peer to peer services<\/strong> or file services like Megaupload<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yes, peer to peer programs<\/strong> are being used for illegal activities, as did Megaupload<\/strong>. But does it mean that all activity on these services are suspicious, requiring the collection of information from the users of these services ?<\/p>\n

Section 16, subsection (2)(b)<\/strong> may also enable foreign police services<\/strong> to access this information, which could then be subject to their local laws and their inherent weaknesses. <\/p>\n

Groups like Anonymous<\/strong> have been able to hack into many of the aforementioned police services so how secure will the information be ? And what’s to stop criminals from abusing section 17<\/strong>, which compels internet and cell phone providers to give private information to any police officer upon receipt of an oral<\/strong><\/em> request ?<\/p>\n

Hopefully these issues will be addressed with much more than the false dichotomy<\/strong> Canadians have been subjected to lately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to concerns about privacy and judicial oversight, the Conservative government has stated that they would be open to amendments to Bill C-30 in committee. Cited as the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, this bill enables the RCMP, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Commissioner of Competition and police services through-out Canada access to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,6,7],"tags":[115,253,379,511,545,747,748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}