The office of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is crafting a directive for how Canada's electronic spy agency shares its foreign signals intelligence with its closest allies, the Five Eyes partners. The work follows a 2016 report from the oversight commissioner of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). In it Jean-Pierre Plouffe revealed how the agency had illegally and unintentionally shared domestic metadata with those key allies: the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Metadata is information associated with phone or electronic communication that is used to identify, describe or route information. But Owens said the agency is now conducting an analysis to support the defence minister's directive on information-sharing activities among the Five Eyes.

Source: CBC News August 29, 2017 09:00 UTC