Why intelligence services need access to your phone

Our society has to decide what the balance is between giving our security intelligence and law enforcement agencies the tools they need and safeguard the privacy and the immunity from eavesdropping we crave. I happen to think we can achieve both through the courts.

The Senate's National Security Committee, pictured in this file photograph. If CSIS or the RCMP can make a case that an ongoing investigation into a serious threat can only go forward with access to data they cannot currently read, they can go before a Federal Court judge and make that case, much as they currently do for other intercept warrants, writes Phil Gurski. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

October 8, 2018

OTTAWA—How many of you recall the terrorist attack in San Bernardino back in December 2015? An Islamist terrorist couple went into a California health sector office’s Christmas party and opened fire, killing 14 and wounding 22. The two were later killed in a hail of police gunfire, but that is w...

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