Bill C-22 "The bill does not indicate exactly what kind of information the ISP or other person providing Internet services must report to the police. Presumably, it would be “computer data” as broadly defined"

Bill C-29 "the bill also expands the number of circumstances in which personal information can be collected, used or disclosed without consent"

Bill C-50 "amends the Criminal Code with respect to the interception of private communications, tracking devices and telephone number recorders. It aims to facilitate the use of electronic surveillance techniques by law enforcement agencies and make such use more transparent, to a certain extent. Its provisions should be read in conjunction with those of bills C-51 and C-52, which also deal with electronic surveillance."

Bill C-51, "A preservation demand or order directs a person, such as a telecommunications service provider (TSP), to preserve “computer data” that is “in their possession or control” when they receive the demand or order. However, a TSP may still voluntarily preserve data and provide it to a law enforcement agency, even where there is no demand or order"

Bill C-52  "It compels telecommunications service providers to have the capability to intercept communications transmitted through their networks, regardless of the transmission technology used. It provides law enforcement and national security agencies with access to basic information about telecommunications service subscribers, under an accelerated and non-warrant- or court order-based administrative process."

Bill C-30 "Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act"  (Renamed from “Lawful Access”)

"7. The operational requirements in respect of any transmission apparatus are that the telecommunications service provider operating the apparatus have the capability to do the following:

  (a) enable the interception of communications generated by or transmitted through the apparatus to or from any temporary or permanent user of the service provider’s telecommunications services;

  (b) isolate the communication that is authorized to be intercepted from other information, including

(i) isolating the communications of the person whose communications are authorized to be intercepted from those of other persons, and

(ii) isolating the telecommunications data of the person whose communications are authorized to be intercepted from the rest of the person’s communications;

(c) provide prescribed information that permits the accurate correlation of all elements of intercepted communications; and

(d) enable simultaneous interceptions by authorized persons from multiple national security and law enforcement agencies of communications of multiple users, including enabling"

Sponsor Minister of Public Safety 2012-02-14

Actual Quotes From The Government's Legislative Summary of These Bills

• March 9 2011 In a letter to Public Safety Canada from Canada's Privacy Commissioners Quote "the provisions of Bills C-50, C-51,

  and C-52 (augmented by changes in Bills C-22 and C-29) would substantially diminish the privacy rights of Canadians"

• Feb 14 2012 The Sponsor for Bill C-30 is the Minister of Public Safety Canada and the Bill is tabled.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews infamous "stand with us or with the child pornographers" comment, in defence of Bill C-30

Feb 15 2012 Vic Toews becomes target of a Twitter attack (from an IP originating in the House of Commons) exposing his past indiscretions.

NOTE: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) has been in force for over a decade. It regulates the collection, use and disclosure of personal information by businesses. PIPEDA allows any business to disclose any personal information without the knowledge or consent of an individual to a government institution or part of a government institution (including a police officer), where the disclosure is requested for the purpose of enforcing or administering any law, or if the information is suspected to relate to national security. PIPEDA was made law 2000-04-13.

Coincidentally around the same time, was the the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy with concerns of surveillance of persons within the United States during the collection of foreign intelligence. NSA maintains a database containing hundreds of billions of records of telephone calls made by U.S. citizens from the four largest telephone carriers in the United States. It is estimated that the database contains over 1.9 trillion call-detail records. According to Bloomberg News, the effort began approximately seven months before 9/11 (September 11, 2001).

Q&A: Ontario's privacy commissioner questions and answers on law enforcement and online privacy Feb 16 2012

Q "Are customers aware if law enforcement has asked for their information?"

A "In many cases customers will NOT be aware that law enforcement has asked for and received their information so they will not be in a position to make a complaint."

Q "If a customer proactively asks the telecom company if they are under surveillance, is the telecom company obliged to tell the truth?"

A "Generally, no: they may in fact be prohibited under the Criminal Code. "

Canada Leading the Way for Lawful Interception?

Lawful Interception (LI) refers to the legal, authorized collection of communications network data, enabling Law Enforcement Agencies to conduct surveillance of IP based network traffic. Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology is an integral part of this process, allowing LI solutions to identify traffic of interest for further analysis and investigation.

Canada's Vineyard’s Next Generation DPI engine - Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) - provides LI solutions vendors with industry leading, high performance technology that identifies traffic types by application or protocol (L7 Classification). Key components of the network data - commonly referred to as metadata - are then extracted for recording and content analysis.

Metadata is basically hidden data about data.

Most computer files contain metadata.