CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents
Source: CBC News
A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada's electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal.
After reviewing the document, one of Canada's foremost authorities on cyber-security says the clandestine operation by the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) was almost certainly illegal.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csec-used-airport-wi-fi-to-track-canadian-travellers-edward-snowden-documents-1.2517881
As a Canadian, I am grateful to Edward Snowden for his whisleblowing revelations. Without him, there is simply no way that Canadians would now be aware of the extent of the illegal spying done by our government on Canadian citizens, and on others.
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with these devices, face the same scrutiny. Hell passports have a chip in them now. Good or bad thing? Don't know. Just the fact of them being is the problem, I think.
The Canadian people are grateful. This wouldn't have seen the light of day without Snowden. Everyone I know IRL is thankful for the revelations. But keep on with the name calling. 
Problem 1) UNTIL SNOWDEN --nobody thought this was important to tell the American people (or Canadians or others around the world...) about this. Only the highest level officials knew it.
Problem 2) NOBODY among those high level officials thought it mattered that average citizens had no real protections against this type of unwarranted surveillance under current laws. They had the green light to collect it all, so they did. Very bad precedent.
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And now we find out that this is Obama's pick for NSA director:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/world/vice-admiral-to-be-named-nsa-director.html
"Mr. Obama’s decision to pick a military officer, rather than a civilian versed in civil liberties issues, was made weeks ago, when he rejected his own advisory panel’s recommendation that the N.S.A. and the United States Cyber Command have separate leaders. By law the command, the Pentagon’s four-year-old cyberwarfare organization, must be headed by a military officer.
The result is that Admiral Rogers, now the head of Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy’s fast-growing cyberunit, will find himself in the public cross hairs in a way he has never been during a 33-year military career. Starting with his confirmation hearings, expected to begin as soon as next month, the admiral will be pressed on how he would carry out a series of changes that Mr. Obama announced two weeks ago."
