Spyware
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Canada to back Biden administration’s limits on ‘mercenary’ spyware toolsBiden issued an executive order on Monday aimed at restricting the U.S. government’s use of spyware that poses risks to national security.CanadaMar 30, 2023
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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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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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Are shadowy agents targeting Canadians who criticize an Israeli spyware firm?NSO Group is fighting three lawsuits that allege its spyware was used to monitor journalists, activists and a friend of Jamal Khashoggi in Canada.CanadaFeb 16, 2019
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Toronto-based Citizen Lab, which exposed Israeli spy software, targeted by undercover agentsThe Toronto-based researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on WJamal Khashoggi's inner circle are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives.CanadaJan 26, 2019
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Saudi Arabia used controversial spyware to monitor Canada-based political refugee: reportUniversity of Toronto's Citizen Lab say that Omar Abdulaziz's cellphone was infected with the spyware Pegasus, and that it was being monitored from Saudi Arabia.WorldOct 1, 2018
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Study finds hundreds of stalker apps, few ways of finding them on your phoneHundreds of apps enable domestic abusers to spy on their victims. And anti-malware programs are terrible at finding them, an alarming study warns.CanadaJun 13, 2018
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