In what Naked Security reports “would be a game-changing shift in prosecutorial tactics,” Canadian police are considering charging the owner of data drives seized “from the dark net”—drives containing 1.2 petabytes of data “in what could be the largest child abuse image investigation ever.” That number translates to more than four times the information in the U.S. Library of Congress, the report states. The Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic’s Tamir Israel noted charges against the data centre would probably hinge on “whether employees were aware of the activity taking place on the file-sharing service the data centre hosts,” the report states. Separately, one expert is questioning whether Canadian law requires individuals to provide border officers with their passwords.
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