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Canadians, Too, Should Demand Surveillance Answers

Posted by timothy on from the enjoy-the-government-run-fiber-network dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Privacy and surveillance have taken centre stage this week with the revelations that U.S. agencies have been engaged in massive, secret surveillance programs that include years of capturing the meta-data from every cellphone call on the Verizon network (the meta-data includes the number called and the length of the call) as well as gathering information from the largest Internet companies in the world including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple in a program called PRISM. Michael Geist explains how many of the same powers exist under Canadian law and that it is very likely that Canadians have been caught up by these surveillance activities."

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  1. Absolutely by Phrogman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guaranteed that our country is willingly sharing all of our data with the US. I don't doubt it for a minute. And its likely been doing it since Echelon was first built, now just more efficiently than before. I have zero faith in Steven Harper's credibility or integrity at any rate.

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    "The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
  2. Where's the Canadian Obama? by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He'll bring you the "Hope and Change" Americans now enjoy. You certainly deserve it.

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    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
  3. We're Canadian eh! by GrBear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We're no US citizens, we already knew we were under surveillance by the US gov't because we're a foreign country.

    This is the first time smug US citizens find out what the rest of the world feels like.

    Good on ya eh!

  4. Every Country in the World by Etherwalk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course Canada is doing it; of course the United States is doing it; Every country that can figure out how is probably doing it. It's like sex. Everyone is doing it or trying to do it.