(ur He: 116.2014. 413 and 414
Mr. Cig Desson
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Mr. Desson,
MAR 2.3 2018
This refers to your Privacy Act request of January 23, 2015, eoeived in our office on January 26,
2015,
Based o
formation contained in your request, please be advised that persona information
banks listed below were searched on your behalf withthe following results:
CSIS PPU 005
CIS PPU OIS
sis PPU OAs
‘Security Assessments/Advice - Please find enclosed a copy of the
information being disclosed under subsection 12(1) of the Privacy,
Act. Some of the information has been exempted from disclosure
by virtue of one or more of sections 21 (as it relates to the effors of
Canada toward detecting, preventing or suppressing subversive or
hostile activities), 22(1(a) and 22(1)() the Act
‘Canadian Security Intelligence Service Records - A search of
this bank was conducted and no personal information concerning
‘you was located
Canadian Security Intelligence Service Investigational Records
~ The Goveror-in-Counel has designated this information bank an
‘exempt bank pursuant to section 18 ofthe Privacy Act . Ifthe type
‘of information described inthe bank did exis, it would qualify for
exemption under section 21 (as it relates to the efforts of Canada
towards detecting, preventing or suppressing subversive or hostile
activities), or 22(1) andlor () ofthe Act.
rain aaron a uo cmaiciceaey ama geaions CLT(Our file: 116-2014-288, 413 and 414
Please note that the information containing your name was found in PRN 939 - Communications.
This is Program Record and not a Personal Information Bank and thus contains no personal,
information about you, We have included this information nonetheless,
‘You may wish o avail youself ofthe provisions established by paragraph 122\(a) ofthe Act to
request a correction in respect of an ertor or omission in the record disclosed to you. In this
regard, please find enclosed Notification of the Right to Correct, and Record Correction Request
forms.
{In accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Directive on Privacy Requests and
Correction of Personal Information, Iam enclosing a copy of the Duty to Assist Principles for
‘You may use the contact information located inthe letterhead to contact us should you wish to
‘obtain clarification concerning your request, Please provide the file number a the top of this letter
imany subsequent correspondence. I am enclosing herewith a copy of the Service's chapter in
Info Source which describes the various other personal information banks maintained by the
Serve, along with a personal information request form. If you would like us to conduct
‘ditional searches, invite you to consult our CSIS Web site at wow.csis.ze.ca or the Treasury
Board Web site at wsiw lnrosouree ge-ca, on how t Mle a complete personal information request,
Please be advised that you are entitled to complain tothe Privacy Commissioner concerning the
processing of your request. Inthe event you decide to avail yourself ofthis right, your notice of
‘complaint should be addressed to: Privacy Commissioner of Canada, 30 Vietoria Suet, 1st floor,
‘Gatineau, Quebec, KIA TH
Yours ty
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‘Access to Informstion
and Privacy‘Toronto-made computer program exposes who's tracking you
‘Toronto Star, Craig Desson, 2015 01 29
Toronto - A Toronto digital privacy activist has launched a way to lt you know when a website
is tracking you. TrackerSSL, introduced Wednesday, opens a window on your computer sereen
that tracks cookies, which et websites know how offen youve visited Ifthe cookie isnt
‘nerypted, your information is vulnerable to government or commercial snooping. TackerSSL
sends a tweet to websites with unencrypted cookies, asking them to encrypt. “Anyone who has
access tothe network can just scoop up that data and build profiles about my browsing activity,”
says Andrew Hilts who runs the non-profit organization Open Effet that created TrackerSSL.
and is also a research fellow atthe University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, a digital research cenre
The reasons behind such a program became clearer Wedaesday when it was revealed that Ihe
Canadian intelligence agency Communications Security Establishment has collected web-
browsing information on Canadians from the UK. spy agency cookie database Mutant Broth
(CSE uses the information to track Canadians who have gone to file-sharing sites to, for example,
Watch pirated movies. The CSE program, called Levitation, is believed to have swept up millions
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