| So far in Canada we have been lucky and these issues have not shown up much. We have a similar act as the Patriot Act but there are many more limits and our Supreme Court has struck down many parts of the bill. This agency (HS) is creeping into many areas. I wanted to buy a lens from a USA Ebay seller that after selling several 100 lenses and gear over the years had stopped shipping internationally. He said he had been interviewed twice by the FBI because they thought he may be selling high end surveillance equipment to foreign undesirables. I'm not sure I believe him but if it was true and I would assume this is an exception but it shows that what your doing 'south of the border' is being watched. Canada Post tells me that almost every package shipped into the US is being checked and monitored from the source to the destination and that most if not all are being opened. I agree that they have to be much more vigilant but not at the expense of the average persons freedom. Now I hear that many US cities are installing thousands of cameras (like Londin UK) to keep an eye on what we are doing. Seems George Orwell was only wrong about the date. |