ISP’s to turn over personal information without court orders
Last week I posted about Harper’s secret dealings on re-patriating spent uranium. An issue for Canada since we are the largest producers.
Now I find that the federal government revealed it had closed-door consultations on plans to force Internet service providers to turn customers’ personal information over to police without a court order.
That’s pretty shocking — a court order is a standard these days. I don’t see how we can expect to hold American companies up to this standard if we ourselves don’t abide by it.
Hello Canadian PATRIOT Act.
FOLLOW-UP Sept 17/07
It appears that this information was limited to the “envelope information” which I posted about before in relation to Google & Privacy. I state that it is okay with email but is fuzzier when applied to IP addresses and URLs.