By AFP on February 25, 2015
Ottawa - Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency has amassed a huge trove of emails sent to the government, as part of its cybersecurity mandate, according to a leaked secret document Wednesday.
And their retention by the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE) for days, months or years in some cases, is worrying privacy advocates.
Public broadcaster CBC, citing a 2010 document obtained from former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, said the CSE closely monitors visits to government websites and scans about 400,000 emails per day for suspicious content, links or attachments.
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