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Canadian Government Used Airport Wi-Fi to Track Travellers, According to Leaked Snowden Documents

By CircleID Reporter
  • February 03, 2014, 5:27 pm PST
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A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden indicates that Canada’s electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal, according to a report from CBC. After reviewing the document, one of Canada’s foremost authorities on cyber-security says the clandestine operation by the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) was almost certainly illegal… Documents reveal passenger tracking operation was a trial run for a new software program CSEC was developing with help from its U.S. counterpart, the National Security Agency.

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