Not the greatest journalism by the CBC on this one. Privacy assessments were not done? Fair point.
But characterizing tools designed to automate the extraction of data from lawfully accessed devices or systems is not problematic, nor is it "spyware". 1/

cbc.ca/news/canada/ot… If you work in an field that involves data or technology, these are basic requirements of the job for accessing and making sense of billions of digital records. 2/

The annual pothole news cycle is upon us, so lets take a deep dive into the history of news coverage in Winnipeg about these road surface depressions #mbpoli #wpgpoli 1/ I looked back to the 1900s, and turns out the "pothole" as we know it today didn't really enter the Winnipeg psyche until about the late 1930s. Reference to "potholes" in newspapers prior to WW2 tended to refer to discussions about the draining of "potholes" by farmers /2