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Canada: Privacy advocates blast Internet surveillance bill

Campbell Clark writes in The Globe and Mail:

A new bill would allow police forces to demand that Internet service providers hand over identifying information on their customers without a warrant, including e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and Internet locators known as IP addresses.

The provision is included in a federal bill that would require telecommunications companies to "build in" the capacity to intercept e-mail, Web surfing and telephone activity of thousands of individuals at a time.

Privacy advocates say the bill goes too far in building surveillance machinery without enough safeguards to protect the privacy of innocent people.

posted by Fergie @ 11/16/2005 06:27:00 AM