The Supreme Court of Canada is set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether the police need a court order to obtain an individual's IP address.The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments Tuesday on whether police need a court order to obtain an individual’s IP address, in a case civil liberties groups say has Canadians’ online privacy at stake.
The case in front of the Supreme Court, R v Bykovets, centres around an Alberta man convicted of using unauthorized credit card data to buy gift cards online, and then using those gift cards to make purchases in store.After a grocery store flagged suspicious purchases to Calgary Police, the police service contacted Moneris — the company managing the grocery store’s online sales — to obtain the IP addresses involved in the transactions.
But the CCLA says that information in an IP address is similar to that found in cell tower data, which police need court authorization to access. “As more of our lives move online, now is a reasonable time to think through what should be the constraints on state power when it comes to watching what we do online. At its core, this case is about that."The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association said in its own court filing that in this case, the police “simply contacted” Moneris who then provided two IP addresses.
Such identification would only be possible if the “individual seeking to learn the identity of a particular internet user, is able to access the information logged by the third-party company or companies,” the report noted.
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