
New data-crunching technologies used by spy agencies could threaten civil liberties, analyst warns
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- Category: Tech & Science
- Published Monday, November 11, 2019
- CBC News

Rapid technological advances in data collection and analysis are transforming the way spy agencies work, potentially putting civil liberties at risk, an Israeli intelligence expert has warned the Canadian security community.
The organizations responsible for keeping people safe must ensure privacy and basic rights are not compromised in the process or they risk losing public faith, Shay Hershkovitz said in a presentation to the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.