CANADA'S CYBERSPY AGENCY MAY HAVE BROKEN PRIVACY LAW

The national intelligence watchdog says Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken the law in disclosing personal information about Canadians. The Communications Security Establishment, given its foreign-intelligence mandate, suppresses details that identify Canadians, or even people in Canada, in its reports. Such identifying information ranges from names to email addresses and computer IP addresses. However, other federal agencies and foreign partners who receive these reports can ask for details of the information if they have legal authority. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency looked at 2,351 disclosures of information about Canadians over a five-year period and found that more than one-quarter of them were not sufficiently justified.