| ▲ | mhurron 9 hours ago | |
You missed 'warrentless' in your summary. It's sort of important. The push by the government here is because Canada is the only one of the Five-Eyes countries that doesn't have these powers, and for the government that's a bad thing. | ||
| ▲ | downrightmike 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That access has produced nothing for the USA, the director of the program has stated such to congress. Complete waste of time and money | ||
| ▲ | like_any_other 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> You missed 'warrentless' in your summary. It's sort of important. Less than you would hope: https://web.archive.org/web/20140718122350/https://www.popeh... Notably, a single secret warrant authorized the surveillance of everyone on the Verizon network: That warrant orders Verizon Business Network Services to provide a daily feed to the NSA containing "telephony metadata" – comprehensive call detail records, including location data – about all calls in its system, including those that occur "wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig... I know those are about the US and this law is Canada, but the same things can happen. | ||