Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads

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 LEVITATI...

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Published on January 28, 2015 02:01
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