Harpers next step in making Canada a police state

Bill S-4, Tories' Digital Privacy Act, An Attack On Digital Privacy: Critics

The Harper government’s Digital Privacy Act is being billed as “protection for Canadians when they surf the web and shop online,” but critics say it amounts to a wholesale threat to the privacy rights it ostensibly aims to enshrine.

Bill S-4, as the proposed legislation is officially known, would allow internet service providers to share subscriber information with any organization that is investigating a possible breach of contract, such as a copyright violation, or illegal activity, writes digital law professor Michael Geist.

Telecoms would be allowed to keep the sharing of data secret from the affected customers.

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It is what it is. The Harper governments attempt to silence its critics and control what the people can and cannot say.

There already is legislated protection for copyright whereby a blogger such as myself is only permitted to post a portion of a story, as done here, or be in jeopardy of infringing on the copyright of the individual or corporation.

The sharing and storing of an individuals personal search data amounts to nothing more than the compiling of evidence against an individual without adequate justification and without proper authorization.

We already know that the Harper government has hired outside firms to monitor social media sites in an attempt to change the rhetoric of dissenting groups. These trolls as they are known as in the social media realm try to interject a conservative point of view when they observe negativity or they try to disrupt and take over the thread. They are failing.

So this bill s-4 is simply the next step in controlling what we the Canadian public can and cannot do. If that is not a police state then North Korea is a model of democracy.