CHAPTER IV Lawful Illegality: What Snowden Has Taught Us about the Legal Infrastructure of the Surveillance State

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I UNDERSTANDING SURVEILLANCE
6. I Canadian Internet “Boomerang” Traffic and Mass NSA Surveillance: Responding to Privacy and Network Sovereignty Challenges 11
7. CHAPTER II Forgotten Surveillance: Covert Human Intelligence Sources in Canada in a Post-9/11 World 45
8. PART II LEGAL ISSUES
9. III Foreign Intelligence in an Inter‑Networked World: Time for a Re-Evaluation 69
10. CHAPTER IV Lawful Illegality: What Snowden Has Taught Us about the Legal Infrastructure of the Surveillance State 103
11. CHAPTER V Law, Logarithms, and Liberties: Legal Issues Arising from CSE’s Metadata Collection Initiatives 127
12. PART III REFORMS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
13. CHAPTER VI Permanent Accountability Gaps and Partial Remedies 161
14. CHAPTER VII The Failure of Official Accountability and the Rise of Guerrilla Accountability 205
15. CHAPTER VIII Why Watching the Watchers Isn’t Enough: Canadian Surveillance Law in the Post-Snowden Era 225
16. CHAPTER IX Stuck on the Agenda: Drawing Lessons from the Stagnation of “Lawful Access” Legislation in Canada 257
17. Contributors 285