Government snooping on social media may breach Privacy Act:
Those are questions the government hasn’t answered, said Christopher Parsons, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which focuses on human rights, IT and global security research.
“This is information that’s been collected without Canadians knowing, and as the privacy commissioner noted, without clear reason,” said Parsons, an expert on state surveillance tools.
“This government is saying they should be able to access public information just like anybody else, but that confuses how Canadian law works.”
Parsons said, once information is made public, Canadians maintain a “privacy interest” in the material.
Without a doubt, this is the most comprehensive piece to date on the federal government snooping on Canadians’ social media accounts.
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