broadcaster CBC reports that the documents leaked by NSA defector Edward Snowden, shows how the Canadian intelligence agency CSEC able to follow the movements of Canadians who passed through the largest airports in the country and linked to each airport’s wireless networks with mobile phones, laptops and tablets.
documents reveal how the intelligence services could then track down the travelers for over a week afterwards, when they connected on other wireless networks around cities in Canada and even at some U.S. airports.
Among those who were monitored, people who subsequently were other airports, in hotels, cafes and restaurants, libraries and other places with wireless networks.
According to Canadian law, the country’s intelligence only allowed to gather information abroad, to monitor telephone and Internet traffic abroad. It is not allowed to monitor Canadians or others who are in the territory of Canada without first having a court order to do so.
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