...n Loan, federal Public Safety Minister. Van Loan is responsible for Bills C-46 and C-47, the controversial lawful access legislation that died last week with the decision to prorogue Parliament....
Monday January 04, 2010
...n Loan, federal Public Safety Minister. Van Loan is responsible for Bills C-46 and C-47, the controversial lawful access legislation that died last week with the decision to prorogue Parliament....
Monday January 04, 2010
...of a restart. Of those, at least four involve technology law: C-27 (anti-spam, electronic commerce), C-46 (lawful access ), C-47 (lawful access ), and C-58 (ISP child pornography reporting). ...
Wednesday December 30, 2009
...ht with hearings on regulation of new media, Internet traffic management, and broadcast fees. L is for Lawful access legislation introduced by Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan in June.&...
Monday December 28, 2009
...ht with hearings on regulation of new media, Internet traffic management, and broadcast fees. L is for Lawful access legislation introduced by Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan in June.&...
Monday December 28, 2009
...d provide information on their subscribers and their activities. Earlier this year, the government introduced lawful access legislation (Bills C-46 and C-47) that places Internet providers at the v...
Monday November 30, 2009
...authorities. More on the bill when it is released, but the government is apparently treating this as part of the lawful access package. Further, cybertip.ca already provides a tipline service and the ...
Monday November 23, 2009
... The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has posted her initial letter and analysis of Bills C-46 and C-47, the lawful access legislation. ...
Monday November 02, 2009
Earlier this week, I posted on the Liberals first reaction to Bill C-46, part one of the lawful access package. Rather than focusing on substantive issues, the immediate response was &q
Thursday October 29, 2009
...would more actively oppose the Conservative government, apparently that may not apply to Bill C-46 and C-47, the lawful access legislation. Bill C-46, titled the Investigative Powers for the 21s...
Tuesday October 27, 2009
The Library of Parliament has posted a legislative summary of Bill C-47, half of the lawful access proposal.
Tuesday October 27, 2009
Second reading for the lawful access bills has now appeared on the projected order of business for the House of Commons.
Tuesday October 20, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen ran a detailed feature on the lawful access bills with comments from both law enforcement and privacy advocates. Police say requiring warrants for ISP subscriber data
Wednesday October 14, 2009
The Canadian Privacy Law Blog reports on a new Ontario decision which concluded there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in subscriber account records.
Friday October 09, 2009
The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities - dubbed the "lawful access " initiative - dates back to 1999, when government officials began crafting proposals to institute new
Tuesday September 29, 2009
...the ISP access request that wasn't The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities - dubbed the "lawful access " initiative - dates back to 1999, when government officials began cr...
Tuesday September 29, 2009
...da's Privacy Commissioners have issued a resolution calling on the government to proceed with caution on its lawful access legislation. The resolution calls for evidence that the new provisi...
Thursday September 10, 2009
...out link to copyright infringement, legalize time and format shifting, favour notice-and-notice, concerned about Lawful Access creeping into copyright. Jeremy de...
Thursday September 10, 2009
...out link to copyright infringement, legalize time and format shifting, favour notice-and-notice, concerned about Lawful Access creeping into copyright. Jeremy de...
Thursday September 10, 2009
ITWorldCanada covers the launch of CIPPIC's DigitalAgenda.ca, the new digital advocacy site.
Wednesday August 19, 2009
... site - DigitalAgenda.ca. The site provides information and tools for speaking out on copyright, net neutrality, lawful access , and the ECPA. The copyright section is the most robust at the mome...
Friday August 14, 2009
...out link to copyright infringement, legalize time and format shifting, favour notice-and-notice, concerned about Lawful Access creeping into copyright. Jeremy de...
Thursday August 13, 2009
...out link to copyright infringement, legalize time and format shifting, favour notice-and-notice, concerned about Lawful Access creeping into copyright. Jeremy de...
Thursday August 13, 2009
...ion without link to copyright infringement, legalize time and format shifting, notice-and-notice, possibility of lawful access creeping into copyright Jeremy deBeer, University of Ottawa - Canadia...
Thursday July 30, 2009
... The latest Search Engine podcast includes an interview with Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan on the lawful access legislation. ...
Tuesday June 30, 2009
...BC's Cross Country Checkup has posted the podcast of the recent program that focused on Internet privacy and lawful access . I appeared along with Public Safety Minister Peter van Loan. ...
Monday June 29, 2009
Colby Cosh in the National Post on lawful access : "No bogus, ill-advised expansion of state power was ever perpetrated on this continent without "families" being hauled out as part of
Tuesday June 23, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen has published a masthead editorial on the new lawful access legislation. Titled Out of Balance, the editorial notes that law enforcement has not made the case that the current syst
Tuesday June 23, 2009
...he Internet in Canada for years to come. The first event took place mid-morning, with the introduction of new lawful access legislation. The bills would dramatically change the Internet in Ca...
Monday June 22, 2009
...hape the Internet in Canada for years to come. The first took place mid-morning, with the introduction of new lawful access legislation. The bills would dramatically change the Internet in Ca...
Monday June 22, 2009
As expected, the Government has taken another shot at lawful access legislation today, introducing a legislative package called the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century (IP21C) Act that
Thursday June 18, 2009
It appears that the lawful access bill is about make its return - a Bill entitled “An Act regulating telecommunications facilities to support investigations” has been placed on the notice
Wednesday June 17, 2009
...pted which raises fears that it is widely used by criminal elements. Liberal MP Marlene Jennings touts her lawful access bill as the appropriate solution, while I respond with concerns about the...
Wednesday March 25, 2009
Lawful access is back. Two developments this month suggest that there may bi-partisan support for the always controversial attempt to establish new Internet surveillance powers for law
Thursday February 12, 2009
Lawful access is back in the news as Canwest has obtained documents that indicate that industry is battling with government over who should bear the costs.
Friday April 04, 2008
...late from Europe. Despite the loss, Kraft re-launched the suit later in the year. L is for Lawful access and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's about-face on the mandator...
Sunday December 30, 2007
...late from Europe. Despite the loss, Kraft re-launched the suit later in the year. L is for Lawful access and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's about-face on the mandator...
Sunday December 30, 2007
... to conduct online investigations. Canadian law enforcement officials have lobbied for years for new "lawful access " provisions that would require Internet service providers to install...
Tuesday November 27, 2007
... to conduct online investigations. Canadian law enforcement officials have lobbied for years for new "lawful access " provisions that would require Internet service providers to install...
Tuesday November 27, 2007
... With Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day now on record stating that the Conservatives will not introduce lawful access legislation that includes mandatory disclosure of customer name and addre...
Thursday October 25, 2007
The National Union of Public And General Employees, which previously raised concerns about net neutrality, has now spoken out about the privacy concerns associated with Prime Minister Harper&
Sunday October 21, 2007
"CWTA is not aware of even a single circumstance when law enforcement has demonstrated an inability to obtain CNA information from the wireless industry. CWTA notes that the types
Tuesday October 16, 2007
CIPPIC has released a ten page response to Public Safety's lawful access consultation.
Monday October 15, 2007
... Former federal Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski is back with an opinion piece in the National Post on lawful access , while Clayton Pecknold, co-chair of the law amendments committee of the ...
Wednesday September 26, 2007
...h Engine, CBC's excellent new show on the Internet and technology, focused this week [MP3 podcast] on recent lawful access controversy. I appear in the first part of the show, but more impor...
Thursday September 20, 2007
The Windsor Star has published a must-read editorial, concluding that "such questions represent the tip of a very slippery slope that could lead to police gaining access to an individual
Thursday September 20, 2007
...rnal ran a masthead editorial on the weekend supporting Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day's about-face on lawful access ...
Monday September 17, 2007
...t of considerable controversy this week was circulated without his knowledge or consent. He indicated that lawful access legislation is coming in the fall but that: "We have not and we w...
Friday September 14, 2007
The mainstream media has picked up on the lawful access non-consultation story with coverage on CTV, Canwest, and CBC.ca. CTV has now posted a copy of the consultation document, but rep
Thursday September 13, 2007
... Public Safety Canada and Industry Canada have quietly launched a semi-public consultation on one element of lawful access . The new consultation, which concludes on September 25th, asks for ...
Tuesday September 11, 2007
