{"id":7200,"date":"2015-04-10T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2015-04-10T05:52:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T10:52:42","slug":"police-asked-telcos-for-client-data-in-over-80-of-criminal-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7200","title":{"rendered":"Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/police-asked-telcos-for-client-data-in-over-80-of-criminal-probes-1.3025055\" target=\"_blank\">Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Ottawa also sought legal advice on telco&#8217;s transparency reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canadian police seek online and phone\u00a0data from telecommunications companies\u00a0in almost every criminal investigation, according to a briefing note to the federal minister for public safety, obtained by CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the practice suggested in the memo indicates\u00a0it has\u00a0become routine for officers to tap into private internet\u00a0activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canadian police estimate that at least one form of lawful access request is made by government agencies to TSPs\u00a0[telecom service providers]\u00a0in about 80-95 per cent of all investigations today,&#8221; states\u00a0the Sept. 26, 2014 memo addressed to Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, released under the Access to Information Act.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/polopoly.nm.cbc.ca:8080\/preview\/www\/2.625\/2.630\/2.636\/1.2818369\">RCMP telecom subscriber data requests poorly tracked, says privacy czar<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/polopoly.nm.cbc.ca:8080\/preview\/www\/2.625\/2.630\/2.636\/1.2844390\">RCMP drops some internet-related probes following Supreme Court ruling<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lawful access includes\u00a0police asking telecommunications companies to install wiretaps, give access to emails or texts, and hand\u00a0over identifiers like the name or address of a customer.<\/p>\n<p>Tamir Israel, a lawyer specializing in internet\u00a0and technology law, says the figure is likely so high because until a Supreme Court decision last June,\u00a0police didn&#8217;t need a warrant to obtain subscriber information such as the name and address associated with an IP address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a tool is unregulated in this way, it becomes a matter of standard practice,&#8221; said Israel, a lawyer with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic at the University of Ottawa. &#8220;No assessment is made as to the invasiveness of the tool, whether it&#8217;s justified in a particular context or not. It&#8217;s easy to do. It&#8217;s low cost, so you just do it.&#8221;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes Ottawa also sought legal advice on telco&#8217;s transparency reports Canadian police seek online and phone\u00a0data from telecommunications companies\u00a0in almost every criminal investigation, according to a briefing note to the federal minister for public safety, obtained by CBC News. 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