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From the bill: "an organization may disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of the individual... if the disclosure is made to another or
by josho 13y ago
From the bill:
"an organization may disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of the individual... if the disclosure is made to another organization and is reasonable for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province that has been, is being or is about to be committed and it is reasonable to expect that disclosure with the knowledge or consent of the individual would compromise the investigation;
So, yes, if you can convince an ISP that the information is for an investigation (not necessarily a police investigation, a private eye or corporate audit would suffice) then yes the ISP can give out your private information.
I especially like this nugget:
"reasonable grounds to believe that the information relates to a contravention of the laws of Canada, a province or a foreign jurisdiction that has been, is being or is about to be committed"
So, personal information can be disclosed even if I am about to commit a crime in another country, e.g. I surf a beauty pageant website and view the enter pageant page that is hosted in Nigeria (beauty contests are illegal under Sharia law).
Sigh, well done Canada. Well done.
- budu3 13y agoSharia law is only practiced in the Northern part of Nigeria.
- paulgb 13y agoAs far as I can tell this only permits the disclosure, it doesn't compel it. Time to switch to an ISP that has a backbone. What's especially concerning to me is that there's no recourse. Given the shotgun approach typically taken by copyright trolls, this is likely to expose more than just copyright offenders. Not to mention chilling effects on free speech. Who would dare to criticize an organization when they can get your personal information from your ISP.
- mycookie 13y agoDifficult to find an ISP with a backbone that actually can follow through. I'd be interested to know if anyone in Canada has had an ISP successfully stand up to procecution.
- Pxtl 13y agoI would hope that Teksavvy and other technorati-driven indie ISPs would do the legal minimum in sivulving customer info.
- kijin 13y agoTekSavvy is a fantastic company, but their business model is completely dependent on the big telcos who control the last mile. The UBB crisis a few years ago was a very close call, and it is bound to happen again in one form or another. So if TekSavvy et al. try to resist the information leaking that the proposed legislation permits, I wouldn't be surprised if the MAFIAA took extralegal measures to force their hands. For example, Bell & Rogers might be persuaded to change the terms of their contract with indie ISPs the next time the contract comes up for renewal, unless the indies agree to some sort of "standard Canadian telco privacy policy" drawn up by the big telcos. So Canadians might end up with a difficult choice: you can have privacy, or you can have 300GB traffic caps, but you can't have both. > sivulving I don't believe autocorrect is capable of producing words like that...
- Pxtl 13y agoOh....err...divulging.