Finally, something positive coming out of the Supreme Court!
of Canada
Ooooof course.
Cries in 'Murican
Meanwhile in the US the NSA just hoovering up every bit of data ever.
“u good?”
My FBI agent after seeing that I read this post.
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Hit this one because I couldn’t believe it. But, now that I know it’s Canada, I can believe it.
I’m sorry for giving you false hope.
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Woot! 🇨🇦
One thing I don’t like is that the opinions in the ruling suggest that and IP address is equivalent to an identity, which I’m not sure has been established nor makes sense
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I understand it: it has been established Canadian law that your IP address is part of the right to privacy that you have as a person in Canada.
It came from efforts by the RIAA and MPAA to get Canadian IP addresses through the courts, where they were rebuffed.
I think I remember it already being established that it doesn’t. It was one of the reasons (along with damages getting capped) why the piracy lawsuits never really caught on as a thing in Canada.