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Home 🌿 Cannabis Technology News 🌿 The DEA Is Coming Under Congressional Scrutiny for Buying Hacking Tools 🌿The DEA Is Coming Under Congressional Scrutiny for Buying Hacking Tools
A US senator is concerned about privacy and wants some answers on how exactly the Drug Enforcement Administration has been using powerful hacking software bought from a controversial Italian surveillance company.
Sen. Charles “Chuck” Grassley (R-Iowa), sent a letter with a list of detailed questions to the Department of Justice on Wednesday, roughly two weeks after Motherboardrevealed that the DEA had signed a contract in 2012 for $2.4 million worth of spyware from Hacking Team.
The spyware, known as Remote Control System or “RCS,” is capable of intercepting all sorts of data from a target’s phone or computer, such as phone calls, texts, and social media messages, and can even surreptitiously turn on a user’s webcam and microphone as well as collect passwords, according to Hacking Team’s own manuals.
“Obviously, the use of such capabilities can raise serious privacy concerns,” Grassley, who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, the organization...
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