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\"space_call\"Another bombshell went off in Canadian telecom Thursday morning when it was revealed that at least one Canadian telecom is evidently giving the Canadian government unrestricted access to communications on its network, according to documents from Canada\u2019s privacy commissioner.<\/p>\n

The Huffington Post reports that the documents,\u00a0obtained by University of Ottawa digital law professor Michael Geist<\/a>, cite an unnamed telecom firm as saying it had allowed the government to essentially copy the communication data moving on its networks.<\/p>\n

“Interception of communications over data networks is accomplished by sending what is essentially a mirror image of the packet data as it transits the network of data nodes,\u201d the privacy commissioner\u2019s document states.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis packet data is then sent directly to the agency who has obtained lawful access to the information. Deep packet inspection is then performed by the law enforcement agency for their purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDeep packet inspection\u201d is a method of analyzing internet traffic to determine the exact type of content. It can distinguish between emails, file-sharing and other types of internet communication, and can be used to build statistics about an internet user.<\/p>\n

The statement appears in a document prepared by law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson for the privacy commissioner. It summarizes nine telecom firms’ responses to questions about law enforcement access posed by the commissioner.<\/p>\n

Geist called it \u201can incredible admission\u201d in a blog post published Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre there legal grounds for these disclosures? Who is doing this?<\/a>\u201d Geist asked. \u201cGiven the uncertainty and the enormous privacy implications, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is surely entitled to investigate this admission using her current powers\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

In documents released Tuesday, interim federal privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier revealed that\u00a0the government made about 1.2 million requests for subscriber data from Canadian telecoms in 2011<\/a>. Geist calculates that works out to one request every 27 seconds. Telecom firms complied with the requests at least 784,000 times, the privacy commissioner\u2019s report showed.<\/p>\n

So – what does\u00a0Worldline do? Not that.<\/p>\n

I asked our CTO\u00a0Francisco Dominguez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0earlier this year to spell out in the simplest terms what we do and don’t do when it comes to our customers data and information. It turns out, we don’t do much, and when we do disclose any information it’s under very specific circumstances with very strict guidelines:<\/p>\n

Francisco\u00a0says\u00a0for telephone numbers, if a law enforcement agency (LEA) requests information and indicates it\u2019s an imminent threat to life \u00a0we collect the law enforcement agency contact \u00a0details (badge\/name\/dept\/LEA name\/contact number)\u00a0and confirm the LEA through a call back mechanism,\u00a0then we provide address details for the subscriber limited to:<\/p>\n

\u00a0First-name Last-name, address, city, postal code, alternate phone numbers<\/p>\n

If a law enforcement agency requests information and does not indicate an imminent threat to life we require a warrant.<\/p>\n

Once a warrant is received we provide the details outlined in the warrant only.<\/p>\n

So, for the record, that’s our disclosure policy. Contact information only, and only when it’s a matter of life or death, or if we are presented with a warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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