Tom Godfrey reports: A plan to fingerprint 1,000 exotic dancers in Niagara Region has outraged strippers who claim the precedent-setting scheme is insulting and discriminatory. The Adult Association of Canada predicted the plan, if approved by Niagara Regional Council, will be adopted in the Toronto area and other parts of the province. A proposed bylaw would…
Category: Laws
Ca: State’s capacity for online surveillance to increase under proposed bill
Steven Eldon Kerr writes: The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, has publically criticized plans to bring back legislation that would expand the legal tools of the state to conduct online surveillance. The Canadian Government originally proposed the Lawful Access package consisting of Bills C-50, C-51, and C-52, during the last session of Parliament in…
TT: Data Protection Act in ‘trouble’
Joel Julien reports: The Data Protection Act is unconstitutional, former temporary High Court Judge Gregory Delzin has said. “The Data Protection Act was not passed in accordance with the required majority to amend the constitutional rights,” Delzin said yesterday. “Much of what the Data Protection Act has done may be unenforceable,” he said. Delzin made…
Privacy Victims by the Million: Federal Law Turns Parents and Children into Liars … and Criminals?
Over on Volokh.com, Stewart Baker uses Danah Boyd’s new study on under-age kids signing up for Facebook with their parents collaboration to lambast COPAA. He writes, in part: Teaching kids to lie isn’t exactly a government policy to be proud of. But federal law has another unintended legal consequence in store for those parents and…