Canada's top court upholds users' privacy
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Good news America - there is sanity in the North.
Internet providers in Canada can't provide customer names and addresses to police without a warrant.
The Canadian Conservative Government must rewrite it's proposed bill to limit our right to privacy on the net.
Link to the following excerpt: article here.
"Canadians have the right to be anonymous on the internet, and police must obtain a warrant to uncover their identities, Canada's top court has ruled.
The landmark decision from the Supreme Court Friday bars internet service providers from disclosing the names, addresses and phone numbers of their customers to law enforcement officials voluntarily in response to a simple request — something ISPs have been doing hundreds of thousands of times a year."
The decision has law enforcement people scrambling to ensure that there are lawful ways to track those who prey on victims of internet crime.