disturbing /. article about Ontario IP addresses

[Tyler Aviss]

Anyone else notice (it was mentioned in a /. post too) that there have
been a lot of pushes to expand gov't power/tracking on the internet
which has seemed to be rather in sync with a lot of high-publicity
"busts" for illegal porn, etc?

Is one prep-work for the other?


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Jamon Camisso
<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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