Canada’s outdated laws leave spyware oversight dangerously weak
The mercenary spyware industry develops and sells advanced tools that can covertly gain complete access to a cellphone’s microphone, camera, messages, photos and historical data – all without its user clicking any malicious links. The technology notoriously facilitates human rights abuses worldwide. In Canada, NSO Group’s Pegasus was forensically identified in 2018 on the phone of a Canadian permanent resident...