Article 324HG Canada's Mounties use a 6-year-old "interim policy" to justify warrantless mass surveillance

Canada's Mounties use a 6-year-old "interim policy" to justify warrantless mass surveillance

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Cory Doctorow
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In 2016, Motherboard used public records requests to receive 3,000 pages of documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detailing the federal police agency's longstanding secret use of IMSI Catchers (AKA "Stingrays" -- the fake cellular towers that silently capture data on every cellphone user in range). (more")

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