Dufresne expressed particular concerns about the RCMP’s contract with U.S. company Babel Street for its Babel X service.
The report says the Mounties did not properly verify that the personal information given to the RCMP by Babel X and its data providers was collected in compliance with Canadian privacy laws.
The report says the RCMP “was unwilling to commit” to implementing the commissioner’s recommendations.
Let me get this straight:
Private corporations are doing surveillance that gives people the creeps when that information is being bought without a warrant by police … but doesn’t give authorities the creeps intrinsically, for its having been produced, in the 1st place??