Wed Sep 14, 2022 – 8:00 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s parliament should consider regulating the use of spyware by authorities as a result of a recent scandal highlighting how the country’s top police force was turning people’s phone cameras and microphones on and off at will.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canada’s House of Commons ethics committee was told by a group of academics that spyware used by police is “cloaked in secrecy” and regulation is needed.
“There is very little regulation of the mercenary spyware industry at domestic or international levels allowing this sector to operate largely without scrutiny,” the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab in a submission it made to the ethics committee.
The Citizen Lab said regulations are needed to set “a high level of transparency in government use of spyware.”
“Almost every aspect of this industry is cloaked in secrecy from who buys and sells the products to the secret trade shows which promote the spyware to the names of spyware companies,” the Citizen Lab noted.
“Companies that sell spyware tend to operate using complex sales structures, including multiple corporate entities operating from a range of countries making it difficult to
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