{"id":17078,"date":"2016-01-29T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17078"},"modified":"2016-01-29T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:03:26","slug":"canada-cuts-off-some-intelligence-sharing-with-u-s-out-of-fear-for-canadians-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17078","title":{"rendered":"Canada Cuts Off Some Intelligence Sharing With U.S. Out of Fear for Canadians\u2019 Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canada Cuts Off Some Intelligence Sharing With U.S. Out of Fear for Canadians\u2019 Privacy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Canada\u2019s CBC network\u00a0reported Thursday<\/a>\u00a0that the country is slamming on the brakes when it comes to sharing some communications intelligence with key allies \u2014 including the U.S. \u2014 out of fear that Canadian personal information is not properly protected.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefense Minister\u00a0Harjit Sajjan says the sharing won\u2019t resume until he is satisfied that the proper protections are in place,\u201d CBC reported.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, the watchdog tasked with keeping tabs on the Ottawa-based Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Jean-Pierre Plouffe,\u00a0called out<\/a>\u00a0the electronic spying agency for risking Canadian privacy in his annual report.<\/p>\n

Plouffe wrote that the surveillance agency broke privacy laws when it shared Canadian data with its allies without properly protecting it first. Consequently, he concluded, it should precisely explain how Canadian\u00a0citizens\u2019 metadata \u2014 information about who a communication is to and from, the subject line of an email, and so on \u2014 can and can\u2019t be used.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinimization is the process by which Canadian identity information contained in\u00a0metadata\u00a0is rendered unidentifiable prior to being shared,\u201d Plouffe wrote in his report. \u201cThe fact that CSE did not properly minimize Canadian identity information contained in certain\u00a0metadata\u00a0prior to being shared was contrary to the ministerial directive, and to\u00a0CSE\u2019s\u00a0operational policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defense Minister Sajjan said in a statement that the data sharing in question was the result of \u201cunintentional\u201d errors and didn\u2019t allow for specific Canadian individuals to be identified.<\/p>\n

The concern for Canadian metadata began shortly after disclosures made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.<\/p>\n

Plouffe\u2019s predecessor\u00a0told then-Defense Minister Rob Nicholson<\/a>\u00a0that the other countries in a secretive surveillance pact called the Five Eyes Alliance \u2014 the U.S., the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia \u2014 might not be sheltering Canadians\u2019 telephone data the way they should.<\/p>\n

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Canada Cuts Off Some Intelligence Sharing With U.S. Out of Fear for Canadians\u2019 Privacy Canada\u2019s CBC network\u00a0reported Thursday\u00a0that the country is slamming on the brakes when it comes to sharing some communications intelligence with key allies \u2014 including the U.S. \u2014 out of fear that Canadian personal information is not properly protected. \u201cDefense Minister\u00a0Harjit Sajjan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,3001,2999,249,12056,11950,577,652,765,5567,827],"class_list":["post-17078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-communications-security-establishment","tag-cse","tag-edward-snowden","tag-electronic-spying","tag-jenna-mclaughlin","tag-nsa","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}