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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 40 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Police need a warrant, but websites and regular businesses can collect and link a user's IP to their personal details and share it with anyone, with no court intervention required.

How does that make any sense?

Maybe police will find a way around this loophole by purchasing collected data as an "advertising partner."

[–] TheGibberishGuy@beehaw.org 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't there something like this already? Swear I read couple months ago something about a police force buying data off data brokers to get around protections in place.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it happened in the US though.

Not that Canadian data standards are much higher.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

No the article was about the rcmp doing it too.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Oh, FFS. That doesn't even surprise me at this point!

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