The link is to a video clip. So here is how Slashdot summarizes:
"In a recent interview, Peter Van Loan, the new Canadian Public Safety minister, says ISPs should be able to provide private user information without a warrant. (The only example he gave was cases of child pornography; the interviewer pointed out that in these cases ISPs are already at liberty to divulge customer information without a warrant, but that the proposed rules would make that mandatory whenever the police ask.) He was adamant that in regard to IP addresses, names, cell phone numbers, and email addresses: '...that is not the kind of information about which Canadians have a legitimate expectation of privacy.' The minister denied — even when presented with an audio clip proving otherwise — that his predecessor had promised never to allow the police to wiretap the Internet without a warrant."
So what do you think? Do you think that the police should be getting this kind of information without a warrant? Does the Conservative Party hate freedom? Is Harper trying to turn Canada into the Borg?
In my opinion: this is bad, no, yes, yes.
