Canada has tracked phone and Internet data for years

[shockedcanadian]

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/06/12/canada_has_tracked_phone_and_internet_data_for_years.html



Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency has tracked Internet and phone data to search for leads in terrorism cases for years, intelligence experts and insiders say.

That shouldn’t come as a surprise to Canadians.

In 2005, the newly appointed head of the Communications Security Establishment Canada said his agency must learn to “own the Internet” to combat terrorism

[MADem]

1. Eh? And the sky isn't falling? nt

[SugarShack]

2. Why is that relevent to the U.S.???

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. A few years ago,

There was an article written about how the LGBT community, and the Jewish Community were receiving Conservative propaganda, that they determined was mined from petitions that they had signed on-line in support of other issues.

Use for political targeting would not surprise me, but the spectre of targeting dissident voices, or groups troubles me much more.