Justin Trudeau’s government has admitted to hacking and installing spyware on Canadians’ devices to get secret audio and visual recordings of them without their knowledge.
According to Politico, the RCMP claim they use such spyware when they think there is a national security concern. This is the first time the RCMP has openly admitted that they infiltrate mobile devices to spy on innocent Canadians, despite having access to the technology for years.
Thecountersignal.com reports: Their admission came after a Conservative MP questioned what government programs are used to gather data on Canadians last week.
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“This is a kind of capability that they have done everything possible to keep incredibly quiet,” said UofT senior research associate Christopher Parsons.
“This is a remarkable finding and, for the first time, publicly reveals that the RCMP is using spyware to infiltrate mobile devices, as well as the broad capabilities of their spyware.” Parsons continues, saying that many security experts have been aware of these capabilities but that this is the first time the RCMP has admitted it. He added that this “is the cleanest, most straightforward explanation of what they’re capable of doing that I’m aware of.”
The RCMP claims it only used this technology in 10 investigations between 2018 and 2020.
According to the submitted RCMP document, the decision to use spyware to infiltrate Canadians’ personal devices is in response to new encryption services that make it difficult for officers to conduct court-authorized electronic surveillance.
“In less than a generation, a high number of Canadians migrated their daily communications from a small number of large telecommunication service providers, all of which provided limited and centrally controlled services to customers, to countless organizations in Canada and elsewhere that provide a myriad of digital services to customers,” the document reads.
“That decentralization, combined with the widespread use of end-to-end encrypted voice and text-based messaging services, make it exponentially more difficult for the RCMP to conduct court-authorized electronic surveillance.”
As for the scope of the spyware used, the technology can gather pictures, videos, calendar entries, financial records, audio recordings, text messages, private communications, and “photographic images of persons, places and activities viewable by the camera(s) built into the targeted device.”
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
This is wrong on so many levels but there will be no uprising, no lobbying for change or anything. The sheep are trained and they know it !
Unfortunately, most Canadians are sleeping and the time we tried an uprising with the truck convoy 4 months ago, Trudeau kicked in the Emergency Act, jailed everyone involved, ran them over with war horses and had banks seize their and everyone associated to its bank accounts. We have a dictator in Canada who is a complete tiny-dic_k ahole tyrant
Trudeau is doing exactly what Xi does. It proves he is a full-blown baby dictator aspiring to be a full-blown tyrant dictator like his dad Fidel Castro was
Justin is doing this stuff to impress his daddy Fidel, who he thinks is looking up from hell and smiling.
The cabal has been doing this world wide, not just Canada, US, etc.
The Canadian dictator is admitting it because he knows people are powerless. This why all these tyrants are taking off their masks. They know that people are screwed and incapable of organizing meaningful resistance. It’s a taunt.