Civilrights groups are calling on the Halifax board of police commissioners and the provincial justice minister to hold the RCMP accountable after a news investigation found the Mounties used a Facebook surveillance tool in Nova Scotia.
Last week, following adeep look into the RCMP’s surveillance tactics，不列颠哥伦比亚省的独立新闻网站Tyee报道Nova Scotia RCMP购买了一个用于“解锁”隐藏朋友列表的工具和“从Facebook中提取整个用户时间表”。
基于多伦多的LTA技术已经将网络身份搜索工具或WIST纳入世界各地的执法机构，自2012年以来，记者布莱恩卡尼在TYEE写道：
Using WIST, police could select a Facebook user who had set friends to private, or seen by “only me,” and watch as the tool scoured the internet for leads from other accounts and filled in the missing friend list.
通过信息申请自由获得TETEE获得的内部文件显示Nova Scotia RCMP部门在调查有组织犯罪团体成员时，在它在“隐秘笔记本电脑”中使用的应用程序中的网络身份搜索工具。
该应用程序可以“解锁隐藏的朋友列表”，将任何Facebook用户连接到最多三个“分离度”的其他人，“Nova Scotia RCMP在2017年其Web监控工具摘要中写道。
“Nova Scotia RCMP（NSRCMP）购买了一年的韩国软件许可，该软件在能够识别，组织和出口伙伴/朋友名单中，”11月20日给Tyee的电子邮件表示，“举办委托，组织和出口员工名单”。
Joyce不能说合同开始并结束时，但该工具似乎已于2017年使用，基于文件由tyee获得。
The Tyee contacted Facebook on Nov. 13 to ask if the social media giant was aware of WIST and its advertised capabilities. Facebook responded that it could not answer but would follow up when it had more information.
经过Nov. 20, a week later, information about WIST on LTAS Technologies’ page had been removed.
当Tyee再次联系Facebook时，请询问它是否与LTA技术取得联系，发言人David Troya-Alvarez确认它已被确认为“从我们的平台上移除了CEO和组织”，以违反政策。
Facebook将LTA技术发送了一份停止和停止秩序，为Tyee学到了。
节目技术首席执行官艾伦atam告诉Tyee that WIST was “discontinued” and declined to answer any further questions on the timing.
Joyce in his email said the Nova Scotia RCMP has not renewed its license for WIST, and even when it was using the tool, privacy and security controls added by Facebook made “many of the software functions ineffective.”
Carney报道，RCMP“从来没有寻求司法授权使用育巫术，因为我们的目的来自收集的软件来自公共/平原的一切，我们没有参与任何人。”
On Wednesday, East Coast Prison Justice Society co-chair Harry Critchley and British Columbia Civil Liberties Association interim policy director Meghan McDermott sent joint letters to both the Halifax board of police commissioners and Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey:
它对我们来说是对我们的竞争感到非常困扰任何period of time given that the RCMP failed to seek judicial authorization for its deployment. The use of this kind of technology by law enforcement engages several of the宪章’s基本权利和自由。第8节宪章通常保护个人通过国家的隐私入侵，除非有合理的理由相信所寻求的信息将揭示犯罪的证据。这种宪法保护与加拿大隐私立法统一，限制了包括Facebook朋友，包括Facebook朋友的个人信息的收集，“个人信息是否可公开提供。”RCMP的使用方法也显着影响第2节宪章言论自由的权利，和平的大会和协会。第15节宪章保护平等权利，也可能从事育师的使用进一步受到边缘化社区，以不成比例地对警方监督。这种潜在的竞争对手群体和社会运动的监测尤其困扰着我们。
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Nova Scotians希望警察对法律和社区负责。除非RCMP以与基本社区价值，需求和期望一致的方式运作，否则包括尊重法治 - 社区之间的关系和警察不会改善。
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Critchley and McDermott called on the board of police commissioners to “take the appropriate action now to hold the RCMP accountable to the public, and to protect everyone’s fundamental rights and freedoms.”
Specifically, they asked the board to write a letter to Furey asking that he issue a directive “to suspend the use of any internet surveillance tool such as WIST by police in Nova Scotia;” “initiate an independent review of any past or ongoing usage of WIST and any other web monitoring tools that police in the province have used,” and report publicly; and set standards following the review that “either outright ban or tightly circumscribe the use of internet monitoring tools by police.”
Critchley and McDermott asked the same of Furey directly, copying federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, RCMP Commissioner Brendan Lucki and the federal and provincial privacy commissioners.
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