While public consultation about bill C-51 is still ongoing in Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is requesting new power to enable the interception and decryption of electronic conversations.
Suspected child predators, drug traffickers and extremists allegedly planning attacks or to join ISIS are escaping the eyes of the law because of increasingly impenetrable encryption and other digital roadblocks, according to top secret RCMP files reviewed by a CBC News/Toronto Star investigation.
The article also refers to an episode where the RCMP spent a considerable amount of money to install equipment to tap into a person of interest's conversations, only to notice that the communications could not be decrypted.
In late 2014, the Mounties spent two months and $250,000 to engineer a custom tool to intercept the target's communications only to discover all of it was encrypted and unreadable.
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