Canadian ISP On Disclosing Subscriber Info: Come Back With a Warrant 55
An anonymous reader writes "Canadian ISP Rogers has updated
its privacy policy to reflect last month's Supreme
Court of Canada Spencer decision. That decision ruled that
there was a reasonable expectation of privacy in subscriber
information. Canada's largest cable ISP will now require a
warrant for law enforcement access to basic subscriber information,
a policy that effectively kills the Canadian government's efforts to
expand the disclosures through voluntary means."
This is excellent timing given the upcoming T.P.P. (Score:5, Interesting)
One of the draconian provisions of the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Canadian government unfortunately signed on to (and just hosted a meeting of in Ottawa) is that ISPs are legally expected to monitor and rat out their customers for accessing verboten content, ie torrents.
I hope that this is the beginning of the end for that idea.