‘Project Wide Awake’: How the RCMP Watches You on Social Media

The RCMP has been quietly running an operation monitoring individuals' Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media activity for at least two years, The Tyee has learned.

And The Tyee investigation revealed that the RCMP has moved from a "reactive" approach - analyzing specific social media accounts as part of a criminal investigation - to a "proactive approach," which the RCMP said aims to "help detect and prevent a crime before it occurs."

That involves ongoing wide-scale monitoring of individuals' social media use and could pose a threat to Canadians' privacy and charter rights, say experts.

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