Snowden: Canada Police Spying on Journalists “Unsettling”
Edward Snowden, former CIA contractor and an outspoken advocate for privacy, spoke to an enthusiastic group of students at the McGill University, earlier this month, to discuss the controversial events regarding the Montreal police force and its unjustifiable surveillance of journalists. The Montreal police found itself in the midst of international controversy after it was revealed that they were secretly spying and monitoring the mobile phones of at least seven journalists, including respected columnist for Canada’s oldest and largest newspaper La Presse, Patrick Lagacé. La Presse stated....
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