U.S. tech firms routinely denying Canada’s requests for personal data:
Transparency reports from Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google suggest that the U.S. companies are being far more careful with Canadian data than even Canadian telecoms.
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“The volume of (Canadian) requests, in the absence of the need for judicial warrants or other court oversight, illustrates the routine nature with which government and law enforcement can easily get (Canadian) telecoms to hand over personal information,” said Christopher Parsons, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
The transparency report numbers remain suspicious, and we need to investigate how accurate they actually are in recording Canadian requests for data when our requests are being served by US law enforcement agencies.
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