Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 26, @11:02PM
from the what's-on-your-ipod-eh dept.

SpaceAdmiral writes "The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs to hand over customer information without a warrant. David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, characterizes ACTA this way: 'If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This is pretty close.'"

[+] government, privacy, bigbrother, invasionofprivacy, landofthefree (tagging beta)