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By David Canton
Slashdot points to a Times article saying that “The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people?s personal computers without a warrant. ”
This of course doesn’t sit well with privacy advocates. It reminds me of the statement in the Canadian Privacy Commissioner’s annual report on the Privacy Act that: ?The Orwellian dystopia was predicated on a totalitarian society. In our democracy, benevolent intentions appear to be pushing us toward a surveillance society.?
Full post as published by eLegal Canton on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).
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