Canadian secret service, followed passengers, airport-to-week long

The Canadian secret service has a wi-fi-tracking passengers from a major airport in Canada for up to one week followed. By the mac-addresses to collect could use the service for the passengers then also tracking other wi-fi hotspots.

The Canadian intelligence service CSEC does not have access to the wi-fi hotspot at the airport, but got the database with mac addresses of a ‘special source’, claims to be the Canadian broadcaster CBC, on the basis of documents from Us whistleblower Edward Snowden. It is unclear when the wi-fi tracking has taken place.

Thanks to the save the mac-addresses could the secret service passengers also follow after the airport had left, because the same mac address and thus probably the same person on other wi-fi hotspots has been.

With wi-fi tracking allows a system to use the mac address that every device with wi-fi enabled broadcasts to connect to wi-fi networks. A lot of people leave wi-fi on their smartphone or tablet much. In the Netherlands, among others, the Dixons, MyCom and energy this technology.

Tracking people via the wi-fi tracking in this way is, according to the experts, under the Canadian law ‘almost certainly illegal’, because the Canadian secret service, only non-Canadians in the holes. The secret service denies the allegations by saying that there is no people ‘tracked’.