Legal Commentary

Bill c-52 Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications

By David Canton

David Fraser has a post worth reading entitled Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act bill one step closer to (warrantless) surveillance state.

The bill has been called “lawful access” , or “awful access” depending on your perspective.  It will give more power to government authorities to get information from telecommunications service providers without a warrant.

David uses the example of secret police in Belarus who used this kind of power to identify people at an anti-government demonstration.

As he puts it “If we’re shocked at what repressive regimes are doing to their citizens, we shouldn’t be giving our own governments tools to be repressive.”

Full post as published by eLegal Canton on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).