{"id":5112,"date":"2015-01-31T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2015-01-31T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:24:09","slug":"canada-casts-global-surveillance-dragnet-over-file-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/01\/28\/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\">CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Canada\u2019s leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users\u2019 file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents.<\/p>\n<p>The covert operation,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/1.2930120\">revealed Wednesday by CBC News<\/a>\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0<em>The Intercept<\/em>, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations about the spying initiative, codenamed LEVITATION, are the first from the trove of files provided by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden to show that the Canadian government has launched its own globe-spanning Internet mass surveillance system.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/1510163-cse-presentation-on-the-levitation-project.html\">the documents<\/a>, the LEVITATION program can monitor downloads in several countries across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. It is led by the Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, Canada\u2019s equivalent of the NSA. (The Canadian agency was formerly known as \u201cCSEC\u201d until a recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2014\/10\/31\/spy_agency_csec_says_goodbye_to_canada.html\">name change<\/a>.)<\/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>CANADA CASTS GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET OVER FILE DOWNLOADS Canada\u2019s leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users\u2019 file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation,\u00a0revealed Wednesday by CBC News\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0The Intercept, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily [&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":[103,3001,2999,249,483,577,765],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-communications-security-establishment","tag-cse","tag-edward-snowden","tag-liberty-2","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","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=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}