{"id":6629,"date":"2022-08-09T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/spyware-is-huge-threat-to-global-human-rights-and-democracy-expert-warns\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:37:12","slug":"spyware-is-huge-threat-to-global-human-rights-and-democracy-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/spyware-is-huge-threat-to-global-human-rights-and-democracy-expert-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity expert Ron Diebert to testify to Canadian MPs about troubling spread of invasive surveillance tools<\/p>\n<p>The mercenary spyware industry represents \u201cone of the greatest contemporary threats to civil society, human rights and democracy\u201d, a leading cybersecurity expert warns, as countries grapple with the unregulated spread of powerful and invasive surveillance tools.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Diebert, a political science professor at the university of Toronto and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/cat-and-mouse-game-how-citizen-lab-shone-a-spotlight-on-israeli-spyware-firm-nso\"> head of Citizen Lab<\/a>, will testify in front of a Canadian parliamentary committee on Tuesday afternoon about the growing threat he and others believe the technology poses to citizens and democracies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/spyware-canada-threat-democracy-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a0adf7952a80d1606de756f292509e28de5da172\/0_117_3500_2102\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a7d6bc9e97ff081ddd6d9499958a531a\" title=\"Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns\" \/>Cybersecurity expert Ron Diebert to testify to Canadian MPs about troubling spread of invasive surveillance tools<br \/>\nThe mercenary spyware industry represents \u201cone of the greatest contemporary threats to civil society, human rights and democracy\u201d, a leading cybersecurity expert warns, as countries grapple with the unregulated spread of powerful and invasive surveillance tools.<br \/>\nRon Diebert, a political science professor at the university of Toronto and head of Citizen Lab, will testify in front of a Canadian parliamentary committee on Tuesday afternoon about the growing threat he and others believe the technology poses to citizens and democracies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity expert Ron Diebert to testify to Canadian MPs about troubling spread of invasive surveillance tools The mercenary spyware industry represents \u201cone of the greatest contemporary threats to civil society, human rights and democracy\u201d, a leading cybersecurity expert warns, as countries grapple with the unregulated spread of powerful and invasive surveillance tools. Ron Diebert, a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/spyware-is-huge-threat-to-global-human-rights-and-democracy-expert-warns\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}