RCMP Spyware
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MPs, senators to review how security agencies use spyware during investigationsThe review by the parliamentary committee will examine the legislative, regulatory, policy and financial framework for monitoring communications.PoliticsAug 18, 2022
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RCMP briefed MPs on cellphone spyware risks, foreign interferenceThe RCMP’s head of national security and protective policing warned MPs this week that foreign actors are most likely monitoring their digital devices.CanadaAug 11, 2022
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Canada’s former privacy watchdog ‘surprised’ by RCMP spyware programDaniel Therrien, a former national security official and privacy commissioner, said he was not told the RCMP had found ways to circumvent encrypted communications.CanadaAug 9, 2022
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Spyware industry needs more oversight, expert to tell MPs probing RCMPThe director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab will speak to the House of Commons ethics committee as part of its probe into the RCMP's use of spyware.CanadaAug 9, 2022
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RCMP has used spyware to access targets’ communications as far back as 2002: Senior MountieRCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told Commons ethics committee in a written document Monday that use of controversial spyware is ‘extremely limited’ to serious cases.CanadaAug 8, 2022
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RCMP’s use of spyware not known until media reports, privacy commissioner testifiesThe Canadian Civil Liberties Association has called for a discussion of the legal safeguards needed around the use of this technology.CanadaAug 7, 2022
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