Communication security/ Online
spying operation
Canada’s leading
surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users’ file downloads in
a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents.
The covert operation, revealed
Wednesday by CBC News in
collaboration with The
Intercept, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to
15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos,
photographs, music, and other files.
The revelations about the spying initiative, codenamed LEVITATION, are
the first from the trove of files provided by National Security Agency
whistleblower Edward Snowden to show that the Canadian government has launched
its own globe-spanning Internet mass surveillance system.
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