The documents reveal the RCMP:

• Gained permission to hide sole-source contracts for Project Wide Awake from the public through a “national security exception.”
• Discussed “tier three” covert operations involving the use of proxies — intermediary computers located elsewhere — to hide RCMP involvement with spying activities.
• Purchased software with an aim to search “Darknet,” which it defined to include “private communications” and those from “political protests .”
• Has used a tool to unmask lists of “friends” on Facebook for users that specifically set friends’ information to private on the platform.
• Was “wasting resources, wasting time, wasting money” on IT projects, according to the then RCMP chief information officer.
• Took the names for Project Wide Awake and other internet surveillance programs from the X-Men comic book series, in which illegal government programs hunt human “mutants.”

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