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Originally Posted by ken0042
I guess a major difference is what you are doing in public as opposed to in the privacy of your own home. Taking the technology out of this; let's say somebody from the gov't was checking out what books, magazines, and newspapers people were reading in the airport. Would you expect to have privacy in that respect? At an airport- no. However I would expect to have privacy about what I am reading at home.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding what happened, the CSEC used info gathered at airports to track users' movement and whatnot once they left the airport.
Granted, this particular instance isn't as bad as some of what we've seen in the US, but it sounds like this was a bit of a trial run for a larger system. And with what we've seen from the NSA in the US, I have little doubt they'd simply stop there.