Comments on: Canadian Royal Mounties Want to Mount Your Drives

By: C-61 in 61 Seconds | Gadget News and Reviews

C-61 in 61 Seconds | Gadget News and Reviews — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:09:45 +0000

[...] 21, 2008 · Print This Article About a month ago, we mentioned the danger in taking your iPod, iPhone, or Mac across the northern border into Canada. Now there is a ground swell led by Michael Geist, a lawyer, [...]

By: C-61 in 61 Seconds | The Apple Blog

C-61 in 61 Seconds | The Apple Blog — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:53:44 +0000

[...] a month ago, we mentioned the danger in taking your iPod, iPhone, or Mac across the northern border into Canada. Now there is a ground swell led by Michael Geist, a lawyer, [...]

By: vanni

vanni — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:53:11 +0000

@eric. if the Mounties wish to Mount our Hardrives then they had better take some V**gra…. becasue they have been pretty ineffectual in many areas of late… to wit the Bernier affair.

By: vanni

vanni — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:50:27 +0000

@honza. yeah you should cancel ’cause when you return to the police state that is america you will be stripped search: “Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country.” America ..the land of the free… yeah right.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:01:23 +0000

Very disturbing. Visit Guardian’s site about how to protect your data at the border. A bit paranoid, but better than getting your $4000 laptop “confiscated” for something stupid.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/15/computing.security

By: Eric3

Eric3 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:13:17 +0000

Keep in mind though, it’s still just a bill, not an actual law, it’s only been through the first reading, parliament is just about to take off for the summer, and it has massive public opposition in a time when the Canadian public is having doubts about the current minority government. Don’t cancel those travel plans yet! Hopefully the bill will die in committee. Or the senate. (Ha ha! I crack myself up sometimes.)

By: .log : собственность

.log : собственность — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:54:16 +0000

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By: Honza

Honza — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:50:19 +0000

BTW I have plane tickets for Canada later this year. Maybe I should cancel.

By: Honza

Honza — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:48:59 +0000

It sounds like Canada is becoming a police state just like the UK. Very sad.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:46:48 +0000

This law being in effect will pretty much remove canada from my list of possible travel loations.
I will NEVER give my digital life to some stranger for “checking”.
All my devices contain somehow a digital footprint of my lifestyle and way of life, most of it not to be published or shown to others - and i don’t mean any “dark” corners of my life.

This is SO RIDICULOUS!

By: Eric3

Eric3 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:57 +0000

I’m going to put on my Obnoxious Canadian hat to inform you it’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, nicknamed the “Mounties”, and that it’s actually the Canada Border Services Agency that guards the border.

That aside, this proposed piece of legislation has people up in arms for good reason, saying that the bill was written up to kotow to American media company interests with no input whatsoever from the Canadian public. Money quote (from CBC): “Prentice deflected questions about potential lawsuits by saying the bill is necessary to modernize Canada’s laws and bring it up to date with its obligations under the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaty it signed more than a decade ago.”