This time its our privacy that’s being handed over to the corps and spooks.
Like much legislation these days, bill S4 is is one huge ugly center with a sugary outer coating.
The ugly center – bill S-4 proposes that:
“an organization may disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of the individual… if the disclosure is made to another organization and is reasonable for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province that has been, is being or is about to be committed and it is reasonable to expect that disclosure with the knowledge or consent of the individual would compromise the investigation;
Effectively it means that carriers and ISPs can keep records of our network activities and then pass these to anyone (read – corp or gov) requesting them under the thinnest of legal pretense. A Chinese entertainment group could demaind private info on you from (say) Telus claiming movie theft. They can do this without your knowledge and you CANNOT sue them even if you can prove that you were innocent.
Who are these Conservative legislators serving?
Not you and I.