{"id":7481,"date":"2015-04-22T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:40:57","slug":"cse-worried-about-how-its-use-of-canadian-metadata-might-be-viewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7481","title":{"rendered":"CSE worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CSE worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Questions over spy agency’s definition of ‘tracking Canadians’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada’s electronic spy agency fretted over how its collection of cellphone and email\u00a0metadata might be perceived even\u00a0before\u00a0CBC published a story on the agency using Wi-Fi data to track airport passengers, new documents obtained by CBC reveal.<\/p>\n

A Communications Security Establishment\u00a0employee warned in an email several days before the CBC story aired that public knowledge of the top-secret\u00a0experiment, which followed\u00a0passengers at a major Canadian international airport using their electronic footprints, “would be damaging” to the agency by “putting into question” its collection of the\u00a0metadata\u00a0belonging to Canadians.<\/p>\n

“There was some internal squirming by CSE around the fact that they had used Canadian metadata to build the analytical model, and had done so over a protracted period,” says national security expert and University of Ottawa professor\u00a0Wesley Wark.<\/p>\n

The electronic surveillance agency came under increased scrutiny in the weeks following\u00a0the Jan. 30, 2014 airing and publication of the\u00a0CBC\u00a0story, which was based on a document obtained by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and analyzed in collaboration with the U.S. news site The Intercept.<\/p>\n