Originally shared by Miguel Afonso Caetano#Canada: "In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that telecom providers cannot hand over their customers’ private information to government authorities without a warrant. The decision has huge implications for Canadians, hundreds of thousands of whom have seen their information obtained by the government, without a warrant, in recent years. It also means that highly controversial and unpopular warrantless disclosure provisions in the government’s Online Spying Bill C-13 are unconstitutional."
Supreme Court’s historic decision on warrantless disclosures is huge win for Canadian privacy, places big question mark over constitutionality of govt’s Bill C-13 | OpenMedia.ca