OTTAWA — An activist concerned about mining-industry abuses found it “kind of creepy and unsettling” to recently learn the RCMP compiled a six-page profile of her shortly after she turned up at a federal leaders debate during the 2015 election campaign.
The RCMP release, which also includes email messages, provides a glimpse into how the police force has made the careful monitoring of social media part of its work. “I have no way of knowing what else they’ve dug into, and it’s hard to not feel like your privacy has been invaded.”The RCMP did not answer questions from The Canadian Press about why and how it assembled the profile.
She and her colleague went to their seats, but someone working for the venue pulled them aside and it soon became clear they would not be allowed to stay.She assumed someone had connected them to the protest outside, or perhaps it was the fact a well-known fellow activist had purchased the tickets for the pair. “We asked questions, we asked if we could file a complaint.”
The Oct. 1, 2015, report, which includes photos and other material culled from Small’s social-media accounts, was prepared by the internet intelligence unit under the auspices of the criminal intelligence program of the RCMP’s Ontario division.
Nowhere near as creepy and unsettling as that photograph of her. That looks like a still from a horror movie.
The most boring job in the world by a person might be the monitoring of a ordinary person's digital output.
Yaaawn