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Ontario Police Deploy Secret Spyware That Lets Them Remotely Take Over Your Phone
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Idk if there are laws around this in Canada, but mobile carriers can apparently install shit that you can't fully uninstall, as soon as you put their SIM in there. I discovered that when my carrier installed their "app center" bs on my non-carrier locked phone.