This document summarizes issues at the intersection of law and technology in Canada over the next five years. It discusses debates around lawful access to data, encryption, data retention, and network interception capabilities. Other issues addressed include internet taxes, linking and payments between platforms, VPN use, global orders for content removal, localization requirements, and website blocking. The document argues that as these issues are addressed through law and policy, responsibilities must be met to use law responsibly and consider matters like privacy, oversight, safeguards, and technological implications.
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Cyber Summit 2016: Using Law Responsibly: What Happens When Law Meets Technology?
1. Using Law Responsibly:
What Happens When Law Meets
Technology?
michael geist
canada research chair in internet and e-commerce law university of
ottawa
25. Bills C-46 & 47
• Mandatory subscriber info disclosure to “designated person” (CSIS, law enforcement):
– Name
– Address
– telephone number
– Email address
– Internet protocol address
– mobile identification number
– electronic serial number
– local service provider identifier
– international mobile equipment identity number
– international mobile subscriber identity number
– subscriber identity module card number that are associated with the subscriber’s service and
equipment
• Individual police officer can also require in exceptional circumstances
31. Bills C-46 & 47
• Interception equipment capabilities
– Capability to provide intercepted communications
– In same format as the communication (no requirement to decrypt)
• Operational requirements
– Enable interception
– Isolate communication
– Provide proscribed info
– Multiple interceptions
• Must maintain capabilities with new software, services
• Must report some new equipment to government if acquire from another telco provider
• Every telco provider must submit report on equipment within 6 months of law taking effect
• Government can reduce requirements
– Phase in period - 18 months for new equipment; 3 years for ISPs with <100,000 subscribers
• Penalties for non-compliance
46. “If you click through to a
journalist's story, then at that
point perhaps that journalist and
the newspaper that employs him
should receive a payment. There
are ways to get at this.”
- Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association