Lawful Access
Canada's Department of Justice has posted a consultant's report on the application of the principle of "lawful access," or police search and seizure, on computer network data. The objective: "to maintain lawful access capabilities for law enforcement and national security agencies in the face of new technologies and to preserve and protect the privacy and other rights and freedoms of all people in Canada..." The Register has a story about it, mentioning that the proposed changes would permit Canada's ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber-Crime.
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The DOJ will be hosting meetings with concerned NGOs/civil rights advocates over the next few weeks, prior to the November 15th deadline for submissions. The purpose of the sessions will be to hear the concerns of public interest groups and individuals, as well as to provide a forum for discussion of the issues. The plan is to hold three such meetings in each of the following centres: Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal. More information can be found here http://www.lexinformatica.org/cybercrime/
Posted by: Jason | October 3, 2002 9:02 PM
Dates for the public consultations in Ottawa and Vancouver have been arranged and plenty of new background material is now available at http://www.lexinformatica.org/cybercrime/.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 19, 2002 2:46 AM