OTTAWA — The Federal Court has put aside for possibly another day whether Canada's parliamentary budget officer has a legal right to demand
the government turn over information on its
Not exact matches
They have joined civil liberties groups in demanding more transparency and insisting that
information is
turned over to the
government only when required by law, often in the form of a court order.
But it wouldn't be that strange if the USA
government asked if the GCHQ had some
information on an hostile candidate and somebody would
turn it
over to a friendly candidate.
The U.S.
government is compelling companies to
turn over all personal
information of users to the NSA.
The regulations would have forced lawyers to collect
information about their clients and their financial transactions and
turn that
information over to the
government on demand.
And the company who might
turn that
information over to the
government is gag - ordered from notifying anybody; they can not speak.
In its lawsuit, Microsoft said of the more than 5,600 federal demands for customer data it received between September 2014 and March 2016, nearly half were accompanied by secrecy orders that prevented Microsoft from telling affected customers that it had
turned over their
information to the
government.
Although Telegram will now be listed as a distributor on a Russian
government list, the company said it will not violate its user privacy and confidentiality policy when
turning over basic company
information, says Telegram's founder Pavel Durov in the Reuters report.
That means that random developers who ignore the rule could potentially sweep up vast amounts of personal
information about you and your friends — and once they've collected it, they could easily sell it, share it, or even
turn it
over to the
government.
Exchanges can, and very soon will,
turn over personal
information to
government agencies seeking tax compliance, perhaps investigating those deemed dangerous, or just to fulfill some bureaucratic mandate.