Canada's Justice Department has released a discussion paper which sets out the government's attempt to increase its powers relating to the interception of e-communications and its search and seizure powers relating to entities such as Internet Service Providers (ISP). The government's main reason for such changes is the goal of allowing Canada to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber-crime. The new powers include phasing in mandatory data retention and surveillance capability by ISPs, and allowing faster access to subscriber information by law enforcement. For the discussion paper, visit http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/la_al/index.html For the Council of Europe, Convention on Cyber-crime, visit http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/projets/FinalCybercrime.htm

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