When Ireland recently joined an international agreement to tackle the misuse of spyware, this country was in the spotlight after an Irish-registered company had just been sanctioned by the US. Ireland and several countries inked the agreement that is aimed at coordinating international efforts to tackle commercial spyware vendors that sell their hacking tools to authoritarian governments. Several companies have been wrapped up in controversies over selling their software to governments that have turned those tools on activists, opposition parties and journalists. The US-led Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware talks of establishing…

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