New Documents Show Thousands of Unreported Wiretaps by Canadian Cops:
Christopher Parsons, a postdoctoral fellow with The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, called the finding a missing link in our understanding of the scope of electronic surveillance in Canada.
“Wiretap data is, in theory, being recorded. But subscriber data and CDR data—neither of those have to be recorded under government statue,” Parsons explained. “There’s nothing in the legislation that will require agencies to record how often they got those court orders.”
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Microsoft, BlackBerry and Cogeco, who were also presents at the meeting between Public Safety and industry stakeholders, did not respond to a request for comment.
“I think what’s most telling is it seems that the parties that have the best records of anyone in Canada is corporate Canada,” Parsons said. “These are the people who are being forced to use their resources to provide assistance to law enforcement, and law enforcement can’t even be bothered to record and disclose themselves how often this is going on.“
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