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Buying Spying: How The Commercial Surveillance Industry Works And What Can Be Done About It

Google News, Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.

Google researchers focused on the most complex hacking threats argued in a report published Tuesday that governments around the world should take more aggressive steps to combat the growth of a commercial spyware industry that is continuing to supply governments with invasive malware used to target journalists, human rights defenders, dissidents and political opponents.

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