Bc Civil Liberties Association: 4 books

The Arrest Handbook is a guide to your rights and responsibilities when you deal with the police. Arrest, detention, searches, seizures and complaints are all covered in easy-to-understand language. Also included are special sections on mental health detentions, civil disobedience and protest, poverty law and anti-terrorist law.

If you are like many Canadians,more and more of your daily life involves interacting with a digital device. Increasing amounts of personal information are being stored on portable electronic devices. This handbook discusses your rights to privacy in your electronic devices when crossing international borders into Canada, and sets out best practices on how to keep your data secure.

Like advances in many fields, those involving genetics bring both benefits and dangers to society. Among the promised benefits is the ability to identify health issues earlier than is now the case and the improve the prospects of successful prevention and treatment. In addition, forensic applications...

This handbook covers some of the topics that you need to know to understand your rights in regards to HIV testing in a new environment where the push is for “routine testing”. It covers topics like informed consent, “non-nominal” (no name) testing, how to safeguard your medical privacy and...