Canada to install Microphones at Airports To Record Conversations

Reports Ian MacLeod in the Ottawa Citizen:

A CBSA statement said that audio-video monitoring and recording is already in place at unidentified CBSA sites at airports and border points of entry as part of an effort to enhance “border integrity, infrastructure and asset security and health and safety.”

As part of the work, the agency is introducing audio-monitoring equipment as well.

“It is important to note that even though audio technology is installed, no audio is recorded at this time. It will become functional at a later date,” CBSA spokesman Chris Kealey said in a written statement. But whenever that occurs, the technology, “will record conversations,” the agency said in a separate statement in response to questions from the Ottawa Citizen…

The recording equipment may also be linked to a federal initiative to aid CBSA combat organized crime and internal smuggling conspiracies at large Canadian airports.

Sources and more information:

• Canadian airports being wired with listening equipment that ‘will record conversations’: CBSA

Airports and border crossings across Canada are being wired with high-definition cameras and microphones that can eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. A CBSA statement said that audio-video monitoring and recording is already in place at unidentified CBSA sites at airports and border points of…

• Ottawa Airport Violates Privacy Laws And Records Your Conversations

• Ottawa airport wired with microphones to record travellers’ conversations

• Canadian government wants to fill airports with KGB-style hidden microphones

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