B.C. to guard privacy against Patriot Act

[CHIMO]

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has announced plans to stop any far-reaching effects the U.S. Patriot Act may have on the privacy of people in B.C.

The province will introduce rules this fall to forbid Canadian subsidiaries of American companies from handing over private information to American law enforcement agencies.

Under the Patriot Act, passed in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, U.S. agencies are allowed access to the information in the name of U.S. homeland security.

Civil liberty and privacy activists say there's an easier way around the Patriot Act – stop contracting out government data services to American-owned companies.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/07/24/bc_privacy040724.html

Complete BS.
And these guys/gals are paid to come up with these ideas.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Good for British Columbia!

The US should never be allowed to bully the rest of the world.

[CHIMO]

2. This Is A Smokescreen

If they are really serious I would propose that all elected members of government have to put their tax info and all other info on each and every database that they create. It wouldn't take very long before it was a secure database.
We went through this crap in the 1960's with trading with Cuba and we didn't have the databases like now.