Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal software developer

Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by vacri on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:04AM (#14916880)

> I can't imagine the criticism the U.S. would face if it had such a mechanism.

Probably none. The US has civil forfeiture and is barely raises an eyebrow. Hell, Jello Biafra was singing about it in the 1980s about when he had his stuff taken by the sheriff and it was sold before his trial. Regardless of whether you were innocent or not, the cops could sell your stuff.

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Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by yohui on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:55PM (#14922584)

There's strong bipartisan opposition to civil asset forfeiture: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/session...

The only question is whether Congress or the Supreme Court will strike it down first.

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Re:Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal sof... by weberc2 on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:52AM (#14929093)

The interesting distinction is that the plaintiff was given authority to conduct a raid.

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