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Originally Posted by Locke
You'd think people would be more upset. On what grounds did a court issue an order to collect telephone information on ordinary citizens who have been accused of no crimes? Where was the probable cause?
If they do it for phones, what else are they doing it for?
Time for me to invest in the American tin-foil industry because they just might have a point.
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I'm honestly surprised at reaction to anything to do with rights being taken away/abused in Canada/America. People generally just don't seem to care that much. The prevailing responses along the lines of "meh, don't do anything wrong and it won't be an issue".
Not to go all MikeytheRedneck, but with the way these two countries slowly change laws one by one to give the government/police more "access" to people's personal lives and more "ability" to deal with them, I wouldn't be surprised if in 50 years or so people are going "holy ****, our governments have the ability to watch/monitor us doing almost anything and we have very little rights when they want to "investigate"; When and how did we let this happen?"
And the awnser will be; Slowly over time, by not providing any resistance to the government.
Again, I apologize for the "tinfoil hat" style post on CP, as I know they are frowned upon and mocked here, but I truley believe we're (the US more so than Canada, although Canada seems to eventually adopt everything the US does) headed in a very controlled direction, and the "freedom" will shift from the people to the State.