RCMP Surveillance

• MPs, senators to review how security agencies use spyware during investigations

  The review by the parliamentary committee will examine the legislative, regulatory, policy and financial framework for monitoring communications.

  Politics

  Aug 18, 2022
  
• RCMP briefed MPs on cellphone spyware risks, foreign interference

  The RCMP’s head of national security and protective policing warned MPs this week that foreign actors are most likely monitoring their digital devices.

  Canada

  Aug 11, 2022
  
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• Canada’s former privacy watchdog ‘surprised’ by RCMP spyware program

  Daniel Therrien, a former national security official and privacy commissioner, said he was not told the RCMP had found ways to circumvent encrypted communications.

  Canada

  Aug 9, 2022
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• RCMP has used spyware to access targets’ communications as far back as 2002: Senior Mountie

  RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told Commons ethics committee in a written document Monday that use of controversial spyware is ‘extremely limited’ to serious cases.

  Canada

  Aug 8, 2022
• Canada’s spy service watched nationalist group in ’60s, ’70s over communism concerns

  The fledgling committee advocated distancing Canada from western military alliances and reasserting the country's control over its airspace and territorial waters.

  Canada

  Jul 25, 2021
• Furey won’t investigate N.S. RCMP’s purchase of tool that can ‘unlock’ private friends lists

  Nova Scotia RCMP confirms it used the Web Identity Search Tool software between 2017 and 2018, but says it did not use it to search privatized friends lists.

  Crime

  Dec 14, 2020
• RCMP surveillance, searches breached anti-fracking protesters’ rights, watchdog says

  'Several incidents or practices interfered to varying degrees with the protesters' rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.'

  Canada

  Nov 13, 2020
• Historian discovers secret phone-tapping ‘picnic’ for RCMP during Cold War

  The federal government secretly gave RCMP security officials the authority to tap telephone calls without court oversight during the Cold War, newly unearthed archival documents show.

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2016