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Snowden Docs Reveal Canada’s Mass Collection of Email

HeadlineFeb 26, 2015

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden have revealed the Canadian government is stashing millions of its own citizens’ emails. Under a massive cybersecurity operation revealed jointly by the CBC and The Intercept, Canada has monitored visits to government websites and collected emails to the government at a rate of 400,000 per day, sometimes keeping the data for years.

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