The PCIPA (Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act) will, in a basic summation of the act, give police the right to check the history of your IP address: what sites you have visited, what you've searched, and anything and everything else connected to your IP,
WITHOUT A WARRANT FROM THE COURT. This includes personal information such as your name and home address, as well as things such as your credit card number, passwords, or SIN (Social Insurance Number). Basically, anything you've put up on the internet can be viewed by the police.
Why is this an issue? If police are allowed this right, it could open up the doors even further to hackers. Nortel, a major telecommunications provider, was being spied on for years before filing bankruptcy 2 years ago. [source:
Newsfactor.com]
If a company this big can be hacked into with the protective barriers they had, what's to be said about our own computer systems? Our governments should be finding ways to build up our internet privacy (without becoming another SOPA issue), not jeopardizing it so that our computers become a grocery store to hackers, where they can take files and passwords at their leisure. Too many backdoors are opened by this.
Furthermore, it infringes the rights to our privacy, and this Act would require the re-writing of several bills.
If you are a Canadian Citizen, please write to your MP and ask them to speak against this Act for the general interest of all Canadians.