Graphene OS for the win
Good luck making that stand up in court. They may as well be handing out “get-out-of-jail-free” cards.
They don’t use it as admissible evidence, they use it to find out whether someone is worth pursuing in legitimate ways that are more time and effort intensive.
That type of investigation would still require a warrant or exigent circumstances at the minimum. Otherwise it’s just fishing…which is a violation of Canada’s privacy laws. They can’t just go rooting through someone’s phone looking for a reason to pursue further investigation.
The article itself mentions how it is a loophole in the privacy laws
Aah. I missed this part on my first reading…
Once a judge approves surveillance, police have carte blanche on methods.
This would be used on suspects that they have a warrant to investigate.
If you turn your phone off when being pulled over would it make any difference or does the spyware still do its thing?
They shall name the tech Harbinger
ASSUMING CONTROL
So there are two ways they can get this so called spyware on your phone. Zero click exploit in some app or through the os itself or the carrier uploads it through the network.
The latter is probably not going to happen… But the former… Is kinda illegal and would expose multiple corporations in malfeasance.
Seems like a puff piece. I call bullshit.
