A parliamentary committee will investigate the use of tools that can extract personal data from devices in use by the Canadian government, CBC News reports. A prior report by Radio Canada disclosed 13 federal agencies use such tools for investigative work, which reportedly can "recover and analyze data found on computers, tablets and mobile phones, including information that has been encrypted and password-protected." However, none of the agencies completed privacy impact assessments as required by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
Parliament to probe government use of personal data extraction tools
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