One month after the EU highest court sanctioned the right-to-be-forgotten on the internet, another huge online privacy ruling has come down --- this time from Canada’s highest court.
The Canadian Supreme Court last Friday said online users are expected to have reasonable anonymity, ruling that telecommunication firms may not give private data to law enforcement without any court order.
Online privacy rights acknowledged by the high court hasn’t been preserved in the United States.
In the United States, courts made a ruling that individuals don’t have a 4th Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in their IP addresses, numbers given to equipment to connect online. So law enforcements wouldn’t need a warrant to retract information from ISPs.
The highest court in Canada shot down the contention of prosecution that allowing online users an anonymity shield would lead to a “crime-friendly internet,” thereby undermining public interest.
A person’s internet activity record, may be important to revealing sensitive information about a user’s internet activities and is worth the constitutional shield.
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