CBC News reports Canada’s office of Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan is creating a directive to dictate how Canada’s electronic spy agency shares foreign signals intelligence with their closest allies, the Five Eyes partners. A 2016 report from the oversight commissioner of the Communications Security Establishment found that the agency had illegally and unintentionally shared domestic metadata with allies even though the agency is said to have a “robust suite of privacy measures.” CSE Commissioner Jean-Pierre Plouffe said the government assured him that the directive would “explicitly acknowledge the risks associated with this type of sharing, given that CSE cannot, for reasons of sovereignty, demand that its Five Eyes partners account for any use of such information.”
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