Canadian Government Backs Down On Airport Recording 36
New submitter ryanakca writes "In a followup to a story we discussed on Sunday, Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has ordered a halt to the installation of eavesdropping equipment at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport until a privacy review could be completed. Although 'similar audio-video equipment has been operating at other Canadian airports and ports of entry for "many years,"' the Canadian Border Safety Agency failed to complete the Privacy Commissioner's required 'privacy impact assessment' before the Ottawa airport installation."
The mistake was the airport chosen... (Score:3, Interesting)
The problem was the airport they chose to do it at.
Instead of some major or not-so-major one, they chose to use Ottawa airport. Which of course is frequented by all the politicians who may be having well, inflight meetings. You can bet having them listened to and recorded will probably make them uneasy and thus quash it.
Last thing they need is for someone to leak out juicy details about meetings with industry following legislation.
After all, Vic Toews has decided it would be better to have child pornographers than have their precious "constituent" meeting details leaked.