
In a unanimous decision, Canada's top court found that requesting Canadians' personal information from telecommunications companies in order to obtain a search warrant is unconstitutional. The ruling, released today, can only be seen as a stiff rebuke to the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).That has huge implications for the Conservatives' two controversial bills that would have allowed private corporations to pass on your private information to law enforcement without a warrant. Thanks to the SCOC, when the bills finally passed through the Conservative controlled Parliament, their most expansive powers will be dead on arrival.
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Documents obtained under Access to Information request revealed that the federal police service not only used the voluntary disclosure provision to obtain users’ personal data, but that they impose heavy gag orders in doing so, ensuring that ISPs would never speak about the process.
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