In the US, a new model of law enforcement has emerged in which police, military, security contractors and large corporations are collaborating on intelligence gathering.
βI am sure the data [US] companies collect on Canadian citizens is routinely shared with their headquarters in the United States,β he said. βIs consumer information being collected in Canada that is shared across the border and [then] being brought back to [Canadian] law enforcement in violation of privacy regulations? If the answer is ‘we don’t know’, that’s a problem, and if the answer is ‘we don’t think so’, that is still a problem. Because nobody is overseeing these intelligence activities it makes it very difficult to know the extent of the abuse.β













