{"id":18153,"date":"2016-02-23T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18153"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:03:24","slug":"difficult-to-determine-scope-of-privacy-breach-in-five-eyes-data-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18153","title":{"rendered":"‘Difficult to determine’ scope of privacy breach in Five Eyes data sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Difficult to determine’ scope of privacy breach in Five Eyes data sharing<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Lack of information about metadata sharing ‘unconscionable’ and ‘irresponsible,’ privacy advocate says<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CSE commissioner Jean-Pierre Plouffe told senators Monday that because the data’s now erased, it may be impossible to determine the scope of a privacy breach that saw Canadians’ information shared with intelligence partners abroad. (Adrian Wyld\/Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s impossible to know how many Canadians had their personal data shared by the country’s electronic spy agency in a metadata glitch, according to its watchdog.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jean-Pierre Plouffe, commissioner of the\u00a0Communications Security Establishment (CSE),\u00a0told a Senate committee Monday that\u00a0data were\u00a0erased from the agency’s system, making it difficult to find out the number of people impacted.<\/p>\n

“It is impossible to know the exact figure.\u00a0After a certain amount of time, data disappears. They have a deadline after which system data is deleted.”<\/p>\n

A month ago, Plouffe tabled his annual report in the House of Commons, revealing\u00a0for the first time that CSE illegally and unintentionally shared metadata with Canada’s Five Eyes intelligence allies: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

That data may include Canadians’ personal information, including phone numbers or email addresses, but not the content of emails or recordings of phone calls.<\/p>\n

“It’s not accidental,” Plouffe said in an interview about the CSE breaking the law. “It’s because of a lack of due diligence.”<\/p>\n

Metadata is information associated with communication that is used to identify, describe or route information. CSE is supposed to monitor only foreign communications for intelligence that may be of interest to Canada.<\/p>\n

If the spy agency comes across Canadians’ information, the law requires\u00a0it to\u00a0delete the data from its systems.<\/p>\n

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‘Difficult to determine’ scope of privacy breach in Five Eyes data sharing Lack of information about metadata sharing ‘unconscionable’ and ‘irresponsible,’ privacy advocate says CSE commissioner Jean-Pierre Plouffe told senators Monday that because the data’s now erased, it may be impossible to determine the scope of a privacy breach that saw Canadians’ information shared with […]<\/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":[12567,103,4886,6523,3000,12568,3353,652,765],"class_list":["post-18153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ashley-burke","tag-canada","tag-canadian-security-establishment","tag-canadian-senate","tag-cbc-news","tag-jean-pierre-plouffe","tag-metadata","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18153","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=18153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18154,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18153\/revisions\/18154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}