Canada: Communications Security Establishment Canada

Communications Security Establishment Canada: Citing a secret document leaked by former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden , CBC reported that Communications Security Establishment Canada collected data from passengers smartphones and laptops over a two-week period and tracked those devices for a week or longer afterward, according to The Star. The document leaked is a 27-page presentation on a trial run of the program, dated May 2012, reported the CBC. The technology was to be shared with the so-called Five Eyes spy partnership composed of Canada, the U.S., Britain, New Zealand and Australia and A federal electronic spy agency tracked thousands of people who passed through a Canadian airport using information gleaned from free wireless Internet service, reports the CBC. is tasked with collecting foreign intelligence under law and cant target Canadians, or anyone within Canada, without a warrant. CBC quoted several experts who said CSECs actions were almost certainly illegal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.