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FW: Canada's privacy czar gives dire warning about anti-terrorism laws

  • 01-02-2003 2:10am
    #1
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    [ Reposted from Politech ]
    ...

    [This is strong language. Read it. It shows that a privacy czar writing
    about government intrusions can be a powerful advocate for liberty. --Declan]

    ...

    Hi Declan,

    Don't know whether you've already seen this :

    http://www.privcom.gc.ca/information/ar/02_04_10_e.asp

    The first couple of paragraphs look like this :

    It is my duty, in this Annual Report, to present a solemn
    and urgent warning to every Member of Parliament and Senator,
    and indeed to every Canadian:
    The fundamental human right of privacy in Canada is under
    assault as never before. Unless the Government of Canada is
    quickly dissuaded from its present course by Parliamentary
    action and public insistence, we are on a path that may well
    lead to the permanent loss not only of privacy rights that
    we take for granted but also of important elements of freedom
    as we now know it.

    Chris


Comments

  • #2
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    The Government is, quite simply, using September 11 as an excuse for new collections and uses of personal information about all of us Canadians that cannot be justified by the requirements of anti-terrorism and that, indeed, have no place in a free and democratic society.

    Guys got balls and shows he is no puppet. Pity we can't get people like that here.


  • #3
    karlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭karlin


    The Canadian Commissioner who wrote this report *is in Dublin* Mon and Tue of this week. I'll be interviewing him -- but of more immediate relevance is the fact that he's giving a lecture at UCD on Monday, Feb 3 at 7 pm. I've got details here:

    http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/02/02.html#a1399

    But PLEASE NOTE that I am not sure if this is open to the public. I believe it is but do call UCD to double check if you want to hear him.


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