{"id":40696,"date":"2013-06-10T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/canada-has-program-to-eavesdrop-on-its-citizens-too\/40696\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:03:22","slug":"canada-has-program-to-eavesdrop-on-its-citizens-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/canada-has-program-to-eavesdrop-on-its-citizens-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada has program to eavesdrop on its citizens, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alec Hill<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/10\/canada-has-program-to-eavesdrop-on-its-citizens-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Caller<\/a><br \/>\nJune 10, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Canadian citizens are subject to similar warrantless surveillance of their telephone communications as Americans have been since 2007, a Canadian newspaper reported Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe and Mail alleged that under the direction of Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay in November 2011, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) renewed a defunct surveillance program comparable to the National Security Administration\u2019s collection of telephone communication data from its own citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The program, like the one in the U.S., amasses huge amounts of telephone \u201cmetadata\u201d: not the actual content of a call but instead the details of who called whom, the location of each party, and the duration of the call. Many have noted that on a large scale, metadata could paint pictures of entire social networks and patterns of communications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/06\/10\/canada-has-program-to-eavesdrop-on-its-citizens-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian citizens are subject to similar warrantless surveillance of their telephone communications as Americans have been since 2007, a Canadian newspaper reported Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}