Spyware normally associated with the intelligence world is being used by 13 federal departments and agencies, according to contracts obtained under access to information legislation and shared with Radio-Canada.
Radio-Canada has also learned those departments’ use of the spyware did not undergo a privacy impact assessment as required by federal government directive.
The tools in question can be used to recover and analyze data found on computers, tablets and mobile phones, including information that has been encrypted and password-protected. This can include text messages, contacts, photos and travel history.
Certain software can also be used to access a user’s cloud-based data, reveal their internet search history, deleted content and social media activity.
Time to bring back hard line phone?
All joking aside, we need new cell phone, internet surveillance and wiretap laws to bring them in line with the new digital age. I would prefer putting any data gathering on internet or cell phone use as having the requirement of a judicial order before surveillance or data gathering can begin.
As history provides ample evidence of, abusing privacy legislation in the name of protecting you quickly turns into abusing privacy legislation to oppress you.
WE need that, but the government are the people who make laws and since they don’t want us to have that, live your entire life like people who want you dead are watching every single thing you do.
do you somehow think that a judge wouldn’t just rubber stamp the judicial order? there is no adversarial process there…
spying on us the hoipolloi or the internal government.???
A friend of mine works with SaskTel. They have automated software that tracks all websites their customers view. This is used to track torrent downloaders.
The software generates reports on targeted websites and shows which customers are using them. The software sorts the users and the significance of their use of the website. Reports are generated and reviewed by staff for potential follow-up. If torrent downloading is deemed significant, a letter is sent to the internet user noting their practice and noting this is in contravention of their user agreement with SaskTel.
Based on that written warning, any subsequent downloading will result in SaskTel passing on the name of the user to the US lawyers representing the media concerns.
SaskTel is the same as all internet service providers. They all have software tracking the use of their customers. The only difference is in the reports generated showing which websites have been visited.
VPN encryption solves that.
Which alphabet front company runs the VPN?
Try ProtonVPN
I wonder if they can still intercept fax transmission ?
Joe Friday maam. Just the facts.
Unredacted Trump warrant shows it allowed the DOJ to investigate anyone who ever liked or reposted a Trump tweet. However bad you think things are, they are much, much worse. A judge signed this warrant.
This would explain how an internet meme was used to justify invoking the emergency act.
I work in Incident Response, and have used these tools (Magnet Forensics Axiom, Cellebrite for mobile forensics gathering, etc) as well. They’re commonly used in IR teams – the question is if the government is using it for purposes where they have to investigate their own devices in the course of an incident (e.g. malware installation/malware to build a timeline) *or* if they’re being deployed against the public without any backing reason (like a warrant for collection of the data).
I’d be very curious to find out the latter.
Pegasus software made by the Israelis.
As well, they can just make shit up.
This coupled with insiders working in the CRA are funneling money into call centers on the other side of the planet at breakneck speed. The last time I called the CRA, 3 people in a row hung up on me. I am not confident my information is secure. I’m pretty sure, in fact, those 3 people that hung up on me have not been properly vetted by any government processes, nor are they monitored. There are massive security issues with overseas call centers and anybody who thinks this is a good idea is completely insane.
It will be amazing if there is any money left…
You will be getting more……