Building Haystacks: Information Retention and Data Exploitation by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

IF 0.3 Q3 LAW
Leah West, Craig Forcese
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This article examines the technical topic of CSIS’s modern data acquisition, retention, and exploitation, a matter not canvassed in the existing legal literature. As part of a special collection on the National Security Act (NSA 2017), it focuses on the policy and legal context driving the NSA 2017 amendments, relying on primary materials to memorialize this background. This article examines how CSIS has been pulled in divergent directions by its governing law, and sometimes a strained construal of those legal standards, toward controversial information retention practices. It argues that the tempered standards on acquisition, retention, and exploitation of non-threat-related information created by the NSA 2017 respond to civil liberties objections. The introduction of the “dataset” regime in the NSA 2017 may finally establish an equilibrium between too aggressive an information destruction standard that imperils due process and too constraining an information retention system that undermines CSIS’s legitimate intelligence functions. The article flags, however, areas of doubt, the resolution of which will have important implications for the constitutionality and legitimacy of the new system.
构建干草堆:加拿大安全情报局的信息保留和数据利用
本文探讨了CSIS的现代数据获取、保留和利用的技术主题,这是现有法律文献中没有讨论过的问题。作为《国家安全法》(NSA 2017)特别集的一部分,它专注于推动NSA 2017修正案的政策和法律背景,依靠主要材料来纪念这一背景。这篇文章探讨了CSIS是如何被其管辖法律(有时是对这些法律标准的紧张解释)拉向有争议的信息保留做法的。它认为,2017年美国国家安全局制定的关于获取、保留和利用非威胁相关信息的强化标准回应了公民自由的反对意见。2017年美国国家安全局引入的“数据集”制度可能最终在过于激进的信息销毁标准(危及正当程序)和过于约束的信息保留系统(破坏CSIS的合法情报职能)之间建立平衡。然而,该条款指出了一些有疑问的领域,解决这些问题将对新制度的合宪性和合法性产生重要影响。
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