OT: Tuesday Globe -- Ottawa and Wiretap access

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"Confidential negotiations with industry" sounds more
like what is allowed (encouraged?) to happen down
South. The argument takes international organized
crime and money laundering as the reason for the
ability to invade the privacy of regular citizens.
Well the big time mob have the resources to operate
sophisticated encrypted networks, its us regular guys
who have to worry about loosing our privacy and the
numerous errors and abuses by the various agencies in
the past prove this should not be conducted in
private.

If this process is important enough to hide now how
about in the future? Imagine you are charged with a
crime and the presenting of the evidence against you
causes the exposure of the methods used to obtain the
evidence, will the prosecution be allowed to present
"confidential evidence"? Evidence hidden from you!

How would you like to be charged with a crime and not
allowed to examine the evidence? Sometimes I think I'm
reading the Saudi Globe and Mail.

--- Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Did anyone else see this article on proposed
> wiretapping abilities?
> 
>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051011.wxaccess11/BNStory/National/
> 
> I don't take issue with the actual potential for
> invasion of privacy, 
> since I think it is somewhat inevitable. For anyone
> who isn't involved 
> in illegal activities there should be no problems.
> Regardless (and I 
> concurr the previous point is very much debateable),
> my concern is with 
> the following:
> 
> "The major boost in interception capacity is in
> proposals the government 
> has put forward in confidential negotiations with
> the telecom industry 
> as it prepares new legislation on high-tech
> wiretapping scheduled to be 
> introduced next month."
> 
> Why must the proposals be confidential? If it is a
> government 
> initiative, shouldn't the proposals be made public,
> what with the 
> governemnt being a public body and all? Claiming
> that making such 
> proposals public knowledge would give the baddies
> the jump on new 
> wiretapping technologies is silly in light of
> existing encryption and 
> anonymizing tools already available.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Jamon Camisso
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