Why track Canadian governmental surveillance?
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, alongside Canadian court precedents like R v. Spencer, limit the Government of Canada’s ability to surveil citizens.
In spite of this, the staff of the Federation for Accountability, Freedom and Oversight (FAFO) Labs, in collaboration with private intelligence firm Prime Rogue Inc, have documented high levels of government surveillance, both by national security and non-security agencies, against ordinary citizens.
Shared Surveillance Canada, a tongue-in-cheek reference to Shared Services Canada, the infrastructure backbone of the federal government, is a work-in-progress database wherein users reverse-attribute Canadian federal IP addresses, and thus allow ordinary Canadians to better understand which government agencies are consuming their web content.
