Big Data Surveillance And Security Intelligence: The Canadian Case

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Intelligence gathering is in a state of flux. Enabled by massive computing power, new modes of communications analysis now touch the lives of citizens around the globe – not just those conventionally thought of as suspicious or threatening. In this astute collection, leading academics, civil society experts, and regulators debate the pressing questions raised by current security intelligence and surveillance practices in Canada. Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence reveals the profound shift to “big data” practices that security agencies have made in recent years, as the increasing volume of information from social media and open sources challenges traditional ways of gathering intelligence. Working together, the Five Eyes intelligence partners – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States – are using new methods of data analysis to identify and pre-empt risks to national security. In Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the RCMP, and the Communication Security Establishment face an uncertain regulatory environment and seemingly incompatible demands: to extend their surveillance, data gathering, and disruption/intervention powers while increasing accountability and transparency in the name of democratic values. But at what cost to civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection? This book will find an audience not only among academics in security studies, sociology, political science, computer science, military studies, and law but also among members of the civil liberties community, investigative journalists, and security intelligence workers. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Title - complete......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures and Tables......Page 9 Preface......Page 10 List of Abbreviations......Page 11 Introduction......Page 16 Part 1: Understanding Surveillance, Security, and Big Data......Page 32 1 Collaborative Surveillance with Big Data Corporations: Interviews with Edward Snowden and Mark Klein......Page 34 2 On Denoting and Concealing in Surveillance Law......Page 56 3 Big Data against Terrorism......Page 70 4 Algorithms as Suspecting Machines: Financial Surveillance for Security Intelligence......Page 81 Part 2: Big Data Surveillance and Signals Intelligence in Canadian Security Organizations......Page 100 5 From 1967 to 2017: The Communications Security Establishment's Transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age......Page 102 6 Pixies, Pop-Out Intelligence, and Sandbox Play: The New Analytic Model and National Security Surveillance in Canada......Page 125 7 Limits to Secrecy: What Are the Communications Security Establishment's Capabilities for Intercepting Canadians' Internet Communications?......Page 139 Part 3: Legal Challenges to Big Data Surveillance in Canada......Page 160 8 Gleanings from the Security Intelligence Review Committee about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's Bulk Data Holdings and the Bill C-59 "Solution"......Page 162 9 Bill C-59 and the Judicialization of Intelligence Collection......Page 180 10 The Challenges Facing Canadian Police in Making Use of Big Data Analytics......Page 193 Part 4: Resistance to Big Data Surveillance......Page 208 11 Confronting Big Data: Popular Resistance to Government Surveillance in Canada since 2001......Page 210 12 Protesting Bill C-51: Reflections on Connective Action against Big Data Surveillance......Page 231 Part 5: Policy and Technical Challenges of Big Data Surveillance......Page 248 13 Horizontal Accountability and Signals Intelligence: Lessons Drawing from Annual Electronic Surveillance Reports......Page 250 14 Metadata – Both Shallow and Deep: The Fraught Key to Big Data Mass State Surveillance......Page 266 Afterword......Page 282 Contributors......Page 288 Index......Page 294