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CIA May Have Illegally Accessed Canadian Bank Records

Tara Perkins writes in The Toronto Star:

Canada's privacy commissioner is investigating whether U.S. officials and the CIA were improperly given access to the banking records of Canadians.

"This is something we're looking into," Anne-Marie Hayden, spokeswoman for the privacy commissioner's office, said yesterday.

While declining to comment further on the American program specifically, Hayden said that, in general, "anytime personal information of Canadians is obtained by a foreign government in circumstances that may not provide the same privacy protections that exist in Canada, we have concerns."

posted by Fergie @ 6/28/2006 11:57:00 AM