TechCrunch·3 min read·medium
US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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The U.S. judiciary will begin publicly disclosing the frequency of government-authorized wiretaps that utilize hacking tools and spyware starting in 2029. This move aims to provide transparency into the use of network investigative techniques by law enforcement.
The FBI has been using hacking techniques and tools, such as spyware, since at least 1998 , but to date there is no public data counting how often the feds were deploying them. That’s about to change — at least for the use of spyware for tapping into someone’s real-time communications.
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