Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
Gallagher, Ryan; Greenwald, Glenn http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/
Publisher: The Intercept Date Written: 28/01/2015 Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article
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 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.
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