Posted on 01/28/2015 7:49:40 AM PST by rickyrikardo
Canada’s leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users’ file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents.
The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration withThe Intercept, 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.
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.
According to the documents, 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’s equivalent of the NSA. (The Canadian agency was formerly known as “CSEC” until a recent name change.)
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So.....who gets to define “extremist”?
Or....lemmee guess...anyone who criticizes this program is an “extremist?”
guilty until proven guilty
You stole that line from COPS...
Are video game “sharers” extremists, too?
And the fallout from Ed Snowden continues.
And what exactly gives these Canuck snoops the idea that they have jurisdiction to do this to anyone not Canadian? Will they share their findings with the NSA for US citizens they consider ‘extremist’? Should be easy enough to defeat in court if they do. Unless, of course, the NSA lies about how they obtained such data. But they wouldn’t lie would they? </sarc>
Several VPNs have been shutdown due to blanket DMCA C&D requests to providers of legitimate, legal services across the US and Canada in the last few weeks. It’s disgusting what law enforcement agencies are getting away with. These companies are now having to spend a lot of money to fight in court to “prove” that they are involved in legitimate business. I say “prove” in quotes, because they have to provide some sort of proof that VPNs are being used for a reason despite encryption technology being perfectly legal.
Watch closely: over the next few years, we’re going to see calls in the US for the removal of privacy controls on the Internet... all in the name of “fighting terrorism.”
Al Qaeda knew what they were doing on 9/11: destroying the west by destroying confidence in everything it stands for.
I'll wager that Canada's definition would be a lot closer to accurate than is Obola's.
That’s what I want to know!! They could identify my neighbors as extremists because they don’t use gasoline-powered yard equipment. Or call me extremist because I voted for a republican. Gov’t is getting in dangerous territory AGAIN.
I know that O does not use “Islamic terrorist” phrase but uses “extremists” just so he and future commies can go after whomever they want. This new definition/phrase will be used by the media for yrs and decades to come until it takes hold and then they will go after anyone who disagrees with them. This is very scary to me.
Very interesting!!!
Thanks
Got it in one.
I wonder what constitutes a suspect download.
My wife watches probably watches 25GB or 30GB per month of Vietnamese language soaps (accessed through a website in Vietnam). She doesn’t keep them around any longer than it takes her to watch them; so what constitutes a suspicious download?
And they are only looking at Canadians’ digital data, right?
If there was fallout, it would’ve ended. It keeps on keping on.
them global climate change deniers are “extremists” (or holdouts), send them to the gulags (as un-re-educable)!
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