http://rt.com/news/canada-snowden-spying-nsa-airport-442/
Documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden show the Communications Security Establishment Canada(CSEC) used airport wifi to track passengers from around the world.
Anyone traveling through major airports in Canada were potentially caught up in the electronic surveillance net, which allowed Canada's electronic spy agency to track wireless devices of thousands of airline passengers-even for days after they had left the terminal according to documents the CBC had obtained
The documents show the spy agency being able to track travelers for a WEEK or more as the unwitting passengers, together with their wireless devices, visited other Wi-Fi "hotspots" in locations across Canada and across the border at American airports.
CBS also reported that any place that offered Wi-Fi access including "airports, hotels, coffee shops and restaurants, libraries, ground transportation hubs" were vulnerable to the surveillance operation.
After this information was leaked, one of Canada's leading authorities on internet security called this operation illegal. " I can't see any circumstance in which this would not be unlawful, under current Canadian law, under our Charter, under CSEC's mandates- Professor Ronald Deibart, who is a internet security expert at the University of Toronto told CBC news
It is not known from the leaked data how the CSEC was able to get away with hacking into so many wireless devices both on Canadian soil and beyond and the article shows that the CSEC is forbidden by law to collect information on Canadians or foreigners in Canada without a warrant
But of course the CSEC says they didn't collect any data on Canadians which I don't buy for a single damn minute and only are covering their asses in my opinion
Also the article shows how the CSEC teamed up with the NSA with this passenger tracking operation apparently was a "trial run" to create powerful software in which the CSEC was developing with the National Security Agency(NSA) and Ontario's privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian admitted she is "blown away" by this news and she told Canadian press "It is really unbelievable that the CSEC would engage in that kind of surveillance of Canadians. This resembles the activities of a totalitarian state, not a free and open society"
And she is dead correct with that statement right there. This has nothing to do with protecting us from the boogymen terrorists they have created, no it is about violating our constitutional right to not be illegally searched without a warrant which reads like this if you read the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms goes like this: "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure" and is all part of the police state tyranny that not only has infected the United States but Canada as well as you can clearly see here. It is truly disgusting and I thank the lord for people like Snowden who are standing up against government corruption
I now hope he wins the Nobel Prize.
