{"id":2269,"date":"2014-12-01T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2014-12-01T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:19:24","slug":"canadian-government-was-worried-about-disclosure-of-telecom-surveillance-info-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Government Was Worried About Disclosure Of Telecom Surveillance Info: Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2014\/11\/30\/canada-telecom-surveillance_n_6244810.html\">Canadian Government Was Worried About Disclosure Of Telecom Surveillance Info: Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">OTTAWA &#8211; A move by telecommunications firms to be more forthcoming with the public about their role in police and spy surveillance could divulge &#8220;sensitive operational details,&#8221; a senior Public Safety official warned in a classified memo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Company efforts to reveal more about police and intelligence requests \u2014 even the disclosure of broad numbers \u2014 would require &#8220;extensive consultations with all relevant stakeholders,&#8221; wrote Lynda Clairmont, senior assistant deputy minister for national and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Clairmont&#8217;s note, released under the Access to Information Act, provided advice to deputy minister Francois Guimont on the eve of his one-hour April 17 meeting with representatives of Telus Corp. to discuss specifically what information the company was allowed to tell the public about electronic surveillance activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline; font: normal normal normal 15px\/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; color: #333333; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Government Was Worried About Disclosure Of Telecom Surveillance Info: Memo. OTTAWA &#8211; A move by telecommunications firms to be more forthcoming with the public about their role in police and spy surveillance could divulge &#8220;sensitive operational details,&#8221; a senior Public Safety official warned in a classified memo. 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