Prism

Apparently polls show most Americans support this stuff if it is deemed necessary to combat terrorism. Stupid sheep.

Canadians - don't feel smug. We have much of the same. And here, they don't even need parliament to approve of it, secret ministerial decrees will do.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013...llect.html

Canada has its own eavesdropping agency, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), which is charged with monitoring foreign communications. The agency clearly states that it "does not direct its activities at Canadians, Canadians abroad or any persons in Canada" and that it is prohibited by law from doing so.

But when it comes to looking into metadata information, CSEC may have more leeway. The Globe and Mail recently obtained documents under the Access to Information Act that reveal Defence Minister Peter MacKay in 2011 renewed a secret metadata eavesdropping program that had been secretly approved in 2005 by then Liberal Defence Minister Bill Graham.