{"id":4980,"date":"2015-01-28T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4980"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:03:34","slug":"cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4980","title":{"rendered":"CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/cse-tracks-millions-of-downloads-daily-snowden-documents-1.2930120\" target=\"_blank\">CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed &#8220;Levitation&#8221; are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to CBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Under Levitation, analysts with the electronic eavesdropping service can access information on about 10 to 15 million uploads and downloads of files from free websites each day, the document says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single thing that you do \u2014\u00a0in this case uploading\/downloading files to these sites \u2014\u00a0that act is being archived, collected and analyzed,&#8221; says Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto-based internet security think-tank Citizen Lab, who reviewed the document.<\/p>\n<p>In the document, a PowerPoint presentation written in 2012, the CSE analyst who wrote it jokes about being overloaded with innocuous files such as episodes of the musical TV series\u00a0<em>Glee<\/em>\u00a0in their hunt for terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents Global sites for sharing movies, photos, music targeted in mass anti-terror surveillance Canada&#8217;s electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has [&hellip;]<\/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":[103,3000,3001,2999,1543,249,483],"class_list":["post-4980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-cbc-news","tag-communications-security-establishment","tag-cse","tag-digital-surveillance","tag-edward-snowden","tag-liberty-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980","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=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4980\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}