<h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="news-item-title"><font size="2">A friend on the other side on the planet sent me this, from a USA source.</font></h2><h2 style="font-weight: normal;" class="news-item-title"><i><font size="2">Canadian judge: No warrant needed to see ISP logs</font></i></h2>
<i>A Superior Court in Ontario, Canada has ruled that IP addresses are
akin to your home address, and therefore people have no expectation of
privacy when it comes to their online activities being accessed by law
enforcement. This means that, in Canada, police can potentially request
information from your ISP about online activities, and can do so
without a warrant.<br></i><br><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/canadian-judge-no-expectation-of-privacy-in-online-tasks.ars">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/canadian-judge-no-expectation-of-privacy-in-online-tasks.ars</a><br clear="all">
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