The Biden administration wants to spur reform in what they said is a largely unregulated industry. The changes are being rolled out ahead of a virtual gathering of dozens of leaders this week for what the administration is calling a Summit for Democracy. Officials said the administration wants to set guardrails early before there's widespread abuse. Spyware allows remote access to a phone or other electronic devices to extract content and manipulate components without the knowledge of the devices' user. In addition, a growing number of foreign governments – not all of them authoritarian regimes – have used spyware as tools of repression and to enable human rights abuses, the official said. workers operating out of at least 10 countries are suspected or confirmed to have been targeted by spyware, according to a senior administration official who talked to reporters on condition of anonymity. Spyware tools have been used to target U.S.
The Biden administration says commercial spyware has proliferated in recent years with few controls and a high risk of abuse.
2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun safety bill, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on June 25, 2022.
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