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Canada’s Privacy commissioner has proposed a series of amendments that are aimed at improving oversight at Canadian spy agencies. According to a special report tabled on Tuesday by Interim Privacy Commissioner, Chantal Bernier, it was recommended that Ottawa should require spy agencies to proactively disclose statistics on when it helps other federal agencies with an “interception,” and extend the reporting requirements for surveillance activities, along with fixing existing privacy laws to “curb over-collection” of data and strengthen the powers of watchdogs.
The special report has surfaced amid ongoing controversial questions regarding government surveillance and data security, especially raised by former U.S. contractor Edward Snowden who leaked documents asserting that American surveillance activities included Canadian spy agencies to have monitored Brazil’s energy sector and monitored foreign diplomats during G20 meetings. Canada’s spy agencies, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Communications Security Establishment Canada, were allegedly found to have misled a Canadian court to expand eavesdropping powers last month. In a ruling announced by Federal Court Judge, Richard Mosley, it was stated that he and other judges have fallen victim to “a deliberate decision to keep the court in the dark.”
Another annual report released three months ago by Ms. Bernier’s predecessor alleged that a number of data breaches reported to the office had, for the third year in a row, reached an all-time high. Then-commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, mentioned in her final report in October last year that “the government must ensure that privacy policies and procedures evolve accordingly.”
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