An Office of the Commissioner of the Communications Security Establishment report of the Canadian Security Establishment has found that the agency increased its rate of private communication interception 26-fold in 2015, the National Post reports. While the government won’t explain the reason for the increase, the agency did find that all of the CSE’s proceedings were lawful. CSE watchdog Bill Robinson predicts that that agency “may have targeted social media conversations between individuals and counted each separate message in the string as a private communication,” the report states. “A small number of online conversations could be responsible for the rather large total.”
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