Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence

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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?" Cover Contents List of Figures and Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Understanding Surveillance, Security, and Big Data 1 Collaborative Surveillance with Big Data Corporations: Interviews with Edward Snowden and Mark Klein 2 On Denoting and Concealing in Surveillance Law 3 Big Data against Terrorism 4 Algorithms as Suspecting Machines: Financial Surveillance for Security Intelligence Part 2: Big Data Surveillance and Signals Intelligence in Canadian Security Organizations 5 From 1967 to 2017: The Communications Security Establishment's Transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age 6 Pixies, Pop-Out Intelligence, and Sandbox Play: The New Analytic Model and National Security Surveillance in Canada 7 Limits to Secrecy: What Are the Communications Security Establishment's Capabilities for Intercepting Canadians' Internet Communications? Part 3: Legal Challenges to Big Data Surveillance in Canada 8 Gleanings from the Security Intelligence Review Committee about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's Bulk Data Holdings and the Bill C-59 "Solution" 9 Bill C-59 and the Judicialization of Intelligence Collection 10 The Challenges Facing Canadian Police in Making Use of Big Data Analytics Part 4: Resistance to Big Data Surveillance 11 Confronting Big Data: Popular Resistance to Government Surveillance in Canada since 2001 12 Protesting Bill C-51: Reflections on Connective Action against Big Data Surveillance Part 5: Policy and Technical Challenges of Big Data Surveillance 13 Horizontal Accountability and Signals Intelligence: Lessons Drawing from Annual Electronic Surveillance Reports 14 Metadata – Both Shallow and Deep: The Fraught Key to Big Data Mass State Surveillance Afterword Contributors Index