According to a report in the New York Times and a story on the Huffington Post, evidence is building that the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) itself is involved in mass, warrantless surveillance of Canadians.
The CSEC is responsible for foreign electronic surveillance has apparently handed over control of an international encryption standard to the NSA, allowing the agency build a “backdoor” to decrypt data, the Times reports.
The information is part of the massive trove of previously secret NSA data leaked to the press earlier this year by Edward Snowden.
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