Even thinking about adding Encryption Backdoors shows fundmental missunderstanding!!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/canada-software-encryption-backdoors-feedback,33131.html

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cnslttns/ntnl-scrt/thm09-en.aspx

1) These people (RCMP and their supporters) really don't understand how a privacy assured cloud works.

It depends on the codification of laws, which provides detection and reporting of violations without compromising privacy.
The codification of laws is fundamentally important, because without them. The unlimited access will be abused for personal gain.

If not by the police, buy criminals who find these security backdoors.

2) YOU are thinking about this WRONG.

Because even in your example of home entry. There is a very clearly visible action of gathering information. Which is easily denied / hidden when performing an electronic search which has been allowed by a issued search warrant.

The law as it reads today deny citizens notification that they are under investigation and as result are not provided notification required to seek legal defense. This legal defense is integral to the legal process protecting people and more importantly making the public aware of excessive use of search warrants.

This same public notification needs to be provided in the digital world.


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Once an investigation has been triggered. In the digital world the amount of real time information available is many times more. So there needs to be multiple levels of search warrants.

Search warrants are codified increased reporting. For example when and only when an arrest or trespassing warrant is issued, should a facial pattern be distributed to facial recognition equipment.

It is ALL about VERIFIED codification of laws including search warrants. The verified codification of laws is a critical component required to insure everyone follows the rules. We know without that assurance, rules will be broken for personal and political gain. The criminals may be international gangs or national / foreign state powers braking the system and using it against its "good" intent.

All levels warrants require PUBLIC notification when and why the warrant goes into effect. Why, because enforcement is about deterrents. Avoiding warrants is a significant criminal deterent. People will do a lot to avoid these warrants and knowing when and why they are issued is a critical part of this. This is true for small crimes and large crimes.

4) I expect my digital privacy to be at least equal to my physical world privacy.

If there are large databases tracking my meta data, indicating who my friends are. These databases will be uses to incriminate by association.

The use of facial recognition needs to be triggered by CODIFICATION of laws. The same way a police officer is triggered by illegal events, be it shop lifting or speeding. Without an illegal event people must not to be identified, because the communicated information of the location of identified people can and will be used to incriminate people by association.

Lack of privacy in the digital world is NO different than lack of privacy in the physical world. If my daily activities are monitored and recorded, than people who don't like me can and will use that to make my life DIFFICULT by disrupting my daily activities. The simple central gathering is sufficient, because with sufficient motivation this will be used against people who oppose those in power. A sad joke is that the greatest crime you can commit is disrespecting a police officer. But there is no such crime as disrespecting a police officer. I can get into legal details, but you know exactly what I mean. The same is true for political protesters disrespecting the decisions of the political leaders and their backers.

Just look at the Quebec Police spying on reporters.

"Provincial and municipal police were tracking the calls to find the sources of leaks to media, including one case involving an officer implicated in a probe into allegations that cops had been fabricating evidence, "

And when Political Parties see personal gain, by helping their financial and power backers you KNOW you live under authoritarian rule.

6) Having access to my home address and phone number does not provide the detail tracking of my daily activities that having my IP address does. This complete loss of privacy is scarcely always wondering who is watching my every activity and gathering information about what my interests may be. Having my name and home address and phone number does not allow anyone to track my every interest!

I could be young man living with my family going to a pornographic site. Knowing that someone is tracking my sexual interest based on my ip and where my ip is used is WRONG. GET out of my bedroom.

7) The balance between public and private notification is important. It should be public record after the cased has be prosecuted. But private before. If the case is dismissed or otherwise rejected only the statics should be retained.

The publication of investigation can destroy employment opportunities and relationships.

However verified private notification is always required.