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ETHI committee hears departments don’t use tools to spy on Canadians

News | 02/06/2024 5:14 pm EST
Parliament Hill on July 5, 2018 (photo by Andrew Meade).

Federal departments have forensic diagnostic tools that can be used for surveillance but they are only lawfully applied and never used outside the ministry staff, a parliamentary committee was told Tuesday.

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