[privacy] CIA May Have Illegally Accessed Canadian Bank Records

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Toronto Star.

[snip]

Canada's privacy commissioner is investigating whether U.S. officials
and the CIA were improperly given access to the banking records of
Canadians.

"This is something we're looking into," Anne-Marie Hayden, spokeswoman
for the privacy commissioner's office, said yesterday.

While declining to comment further on the American program
specifically, Hayden said that, in general, "anytime personal
information of Canadians is obtained by a foreign government in
circumstances that may not provide the same privacy protections that
exist in Canada, we have concerns."

[snip]

More here:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1151445022507

- ferg


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