It appears that Canada may have it’s own domestic spy program in the wings or does it? On this past June 15 Bell Sympatico, a high speed DSL provider, changed their customer service agreement.
The clause states that Sympatico reserves the right to “monitor or investigate content on your use of your service provider’s network and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any laws, regulations or other government request.”
Bell claims that this is not a tacit agreement with Big Brother. Bell stated that in order for any sort of monitoring to take place that they would need a court order.
Michael Geist, an Internet law professor at the University of Ottawa, believes Sympatico’s new contract language is a sign that the telecommunications industry expects the Conservative government to introduce an Internet surveillance bill.
How long until we to are mired in the mess that Bush Administration has drawn the US into?
[tags]Wiretap, Censorship, Monitoring, Surveillance, Bell Sympatico, DSL, Michael Geist, Bush[/tags]
