Monday, February 3, 2014

Heads of CSIS and CSEC Will Appear Before the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence


About three days ago, the CBC broke a story about CSEC using information from a Canadian airport’s free wifi services to track the devices of users for a few days after they left the airport. The CBC got this information from a document retrieved by Edward Snowdon. In response to that revelation, the heads of CSIS and CSEC will be appearing before the Senate Committee on National Security and Defense to answer questions about their intelligence gathering activities and the privacy of Canadians. The live stream of this session will start at 4:00pm and I think that we will see the surfacing of some of the tensions we discussed in class about balancing privacy and national security. See the link below for more details. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-and-csec-spy-chiefs-to-face-public-grilling-today-1.2521166

2 comments:

  1. Indeed, that was a very interesting revelation. Well worth thinking about for a paper topic.

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