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Canada’s Outdated Laws Leave Spyware Oversight Dangerously Weak - The Citizen Lab

Summary by The Citizen Lab
Recent research from Citizen Lab marked the first time a Canadian police service was directly linked to the mercenary spyware industry. The report identified the Ontario Provincial Police as a possible customer of a spyware company called Paragon Solutions. In a new piece for Policy Options, senior research associate Kate Robertson and legal extern Song-Ly Tran discuss how outdated protections in Canada’s decades old wiretap laws fail to protect…
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The Citizen Lab broke the news in on Monday, July 21, 2025.
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