Canada's spy service moves quietly ahead with data-crunching plans: documents

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Newly released documents show Canada's spy agency is moving ahead with plans to collect and use databases containing personal information about Canadians.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the initiative -- made possible by sweeping security legislation passed last year -- will enable the agency to crunch Canadian information and detect previously unseen patterns.

Memos disclosed under the Access to Information Act show CSIS got the process rolling last July with a request to Ralph Goodale, public safety minister at the time.A note to the minister cautions that the first year of the new regime will be a learning process.

 

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