Introducing privacy-protective surveillance

Above all, privacy – as the ability of individuals to control the collection, use, and disclosure of information about themselves – deserves the strongest protection, since it forms the basis of many of our freedoms. [...] In the Canadian context, the Commissioner noted that in giving such sweeping power to the state, “… the public risk[s] being le out of the decision- making process, and Canadians risk seeing TSPs transformed into agents of the state. [...] It is this probability inference that will, in part, be used by the court to decide whether or not to issue the encryption key to decipher the identity of the individual in question. [...] Furthermore, the detection of a single feature may not, in and of itself, be su cient to justify the disclosure of an individual’s personal information to the authorities on the grounds of counter-terrorism. [...] With these, one can at least here that analysis and linking of the data and test not only the fact, but the strength of the the resulting inferred probability and decisions encryption used by PPS agents.