the darkerside to rants

U.S. Patriot Act Raises Canadian Privacy Fears talks about the concern British Columbia has about the Patriot Act and how it could affect Canadian Citizens…. Scary.

The controversy arose when British Columbia signed a tentative agreement in March to turn its medical record-keeping operations over to the Canadian unit of U.S. information technology firm Maximus Inc. Under Canada’s universal health care, the provinces administer the medical system.

Public employee unions and civil libertarians complained the records could become subject to a provision of the Patriot Act that can force U.S. firms to give the FBI a wide range of information without telling the people being investigated.

“The provision can be used against any person, business or organization to obtain any tangible thing,” the American Civil Liberties Union warned in its submission to B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner David Loukidelis.

According to Gamma Fodder I would like to point out the

Fashion Crimes of 2004.

And man is he right.