"The fact of the matter is that wherever we go we leave a digital trail behind us - from our mobile

Ronald Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, looked at the documents for a CBC report and suggests government tracking of data at a major Canadian airport may violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“The other Canadian revelations cruises vacations from Edward Snowden that have come out so far were interesting and remarkable in many ways, but they didn’t rise to the level of issues around lawfulness; however, this one clearly does,” he said in an interview with Global News on Friday. “What’s presented in [the] document[s] is hard to look at it and not see how it wouldn’t be a violation CSEC’s mandates and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”
The documents allege that the Communications Security Establishment of Canada (CSEC) was given information retrieved from wireless devices using an airport’s wireless network over a two-week period. The specific airport however is not named.
The CSEC’s mandate includes monitoring foreign computer, satellite, radio and telephone traffic of people, states, organizations and terrorist groups for information of interest to Canada. The agency is not supposed to be spying on Canadians.
A statement from CSEC provided to Global News Friday said the document provided to CBC was a technical presentation on mathematical models used to track and locate “foreign terrorist threats.” But at no time, CSEC said in a statement, were “Canadian or foreign travelers tracked.”
“CSE s activities, including the collection and analysis of metadata, are authorized under the National Defence Act, section 273.64. Our activities are further guided by a robust framework of Ministerial Directives and operational policies.”
The information was tracked as part of a pilot project done with the American National Security Agency (NSA), according to the document. CSEC reportedly tracked metadata such as the location and telephone numbers of calls made and received, but not the content of those calls.
“The fact of the matter is that wherever we go we leave a digital trail behind cruises vacations us – from our mobile phones, this telephone call that we are engaged in right now is using metadata that the phone numbers on either end, the length of the call once it’s done, and the geolocation of where you are and where I am as we engage in this conversation,” he said in a telephone interview Friday.
The Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA), which oversees operations at Pearson international Airport, declined an interview request by Global News but did say in a written statement that the GTAA “does not collect information or data transmitted” and that its free wireless cruises vacations service cruises vacations is provided by a third-party, Boingo.
“The only data the GTAA receives from Boingo is aggregate information about bandwidth cruises vacations usage at our facility for billing purposes,” the statement reads. “We are not aware of any requests to the GTAA from any Canadian intelligence agencies for specific data related to wireless.”