Privacy law focus of legal action | Halifax Chronicle Herald - Paul McLeod, Ottawa Bureau:
May 21, 2014 - "The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is going to court to argue Canada’s privacy laws are unconstitutional.
"The group maintains that the large-scale secret disclosure of customer data by telecoms violates Canadians’ rights to life, liberty and security.
"The legal challenge calls for the Ontario Superior Court to throw out several sections of Canada’s digital privacy law, the Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act [which]. 'allows government agencies access to personal information in the custody of private corporations on a massive scale,” the court application reads.
"'Personal information may be obtained without the knowledge or consent of the concerned individual and … in many cases the individual will not be advised that disclosure was made nor have any right to such disclosure'....
"New information has shown that these transactions happen thousands of times every day. Law enforcement requested data 1.2 million times from just nine companies in 2011.
"Documents tabled in Parliament showed that a warrant is not obtained in the large majority of cases."
Read more: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1209103-privacy-law-focus-of-legal-action
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May 21, 2014 - "The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is going to court to argue Canada’s privacy laws are unconstitutional.
"The group maintains that the large-scale secret disclosure of customer data by telecoms violates Canadians’ rights to life, liberty and security.
"The legal challenge calls for the Ontario Superior Court to throw out several sections of Canada’s digital privacy law, the Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act [which]. 'allows government agencies access to personal information in the custody of private corporations on a massive scale,” the court application reads.
"'Personal information may be obtained without the knowledge or consent of the concerned individual and … in many cases the individual will not be advised that disclosure was made nor have any right to such disclosure'....
"New information has shown that these transactions happen thousands of times every day. Law enforcement requested data 1.2 million times from just nine companies in 2011.
"Documents tabled in Parliament showed that a warrant is not obtained in the large majority of cases."
Read more: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1209103-privacy-law-focus-of-legal-action
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