Legislation alone isn’t enough to stop spyware
Summary: Cisco Talos dissected the Predator spyware, revealing functions that track a target's device and can allow the end user to track the target's exact location. Between 2011 and 2023, at least 74 governments worked with commercial firms to obtain spyware or digital forensics technology, according to a Carnegie global inventory cited in the newsletter.
Bottom line: President Biden's executive order bars the U.S. government from spyware contracts, but that still leaves another 70-some countries where the issue needs to be addressed, and the U.S. has no comprehensive privacy law protecting spyware targets.
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