Privacy Experts Disagree With RCMP That Spyware Is Similar to Wiretapping

Privacy Experts Disagree With RCMP That Spyware Is Similar to Wiretapping
A person uses a cell phone in Ottawa on July 18, 2022. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Privacy experts say police and government use of “extremely intrusive” spyware needs to be tightly controlled, and the technology should be outlawed for the general Canadian public.

Former privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told the committee he was not aware the RCMP has been using what it calls “on-device investigative tools” for more than a decade.