{"id":276337,"date":"2026-06-19T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:05:11","slug":"ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario police aren\u2019t reporting spyware use, senior privacy official warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelogic.co\/briefing\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/\">Ontario police aren\u2019t reporting spyware use, senior privacy official warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelogic.co\/briefing\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/\">https:\/\/thelogic.co\/briefing\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-19 15:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thelogic.co\">thelogic.co<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The provincial privacy commissioner has never received a single privacy impact assessment from a police force over its use of software that snoops on people\u2019s smartphones and other devices, Christopher Parsons, the office\u2019s director of research and technology policy, said at the National Cybersecurity Consortium conference in Montreal on Thursday. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(The Logic)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talking point: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Police ought to be transparent about how they use tools that collect personal data and potentially make users\u2019 devices less secure, Parsons said. The provincial privacy authority will help police stay on the right side of the law, he said, but they need to ask. Researchers at Citizen Lab <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">believe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> numerous Ontario forces are using these tools. The federal privacy commissioner has previously <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">scolded<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the RCMP for violating privacy law by using third-party software from Clearview AI\u2014software that Toronto police also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">used<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelogic.co\/briefing\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario police aren\u2019t reporting spyware use, senior privacy official warns https:\/\/thelogic.co\/briefing\/ontario-police-arent-reporting-spyware-use-senior-privacy-official-warns\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-19 15:37:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thelogic.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/WP_Logo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276339,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276337\/revisions\/276339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}