CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government:
The program to protect government servers from hackers, criminals and enemy states is raising questions about the breadth of the collection, the length of retention and how the information could be shared with police and spy partners in other countries.
Chris Parsons, an internet security expert who viewed the document, said there are legitimate purposes for the agency to monitor your communications with the government.
“But you should be able to communicate with your government without the fear that what you say … could come back to haunt you in unexpected ways,” says Parsons, a postdoctoral fellow at Citizen Lab, a unit at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
“When we collect huge volumes, it’s not just used to track bad guys. It goes into data stores for years or months at a time and then it can be used at any point in the future.”
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