disturbing /. article about Ontario IP addresses

[Jamon Camisso]

Quote:

"An Ontario Superior Court Justice has ruled that Canadian police can
obtain the identities of Internet users without a warrant, writing that
there is 'no reasonable expectation of privacy' for a user's online
identity, and drawing the analogy that 'One's name and address or the
name and address of your spouse are not biographical information one
expects would be kept private from the state.' But why in the world is
it valid to compare an IP address with a street address in the phone book?"

More here: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/1455256
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