Agency reportedly kept tabs on passengers: CBC
Posted January 30, 2014 8:41 pm.
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OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency reportedly tracked the wireless devices of thousands of travellers by using information gleaned from free internet service at a major Canadian airport.
The CBC is reporting the revelation is contained in a top secret document retrieved by US whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The network says the document indicates the Communications Security Establishment Canada was given information taken from wireless devices using the airport’s free Wi-Fi system over a two-week period.
It’s not clear which airport was involved.
The document shows the CSEC was then able to track travellers for a week or more as they showed up in other Wi-Fi locations in cities across Canada.
A CSEC statement given to the broadcaster would not confirm or deny the CBC report.
