Report says the telecommunications regulator failed to address serious cyber threats over a ‘risk averse’ culture and organizational infighting lead
The Auditor-General of Canada has accused the federal telecommunications regulator of lax enforcement and of refusing to pass along data to police that it collects about suspected criminals.
But the larger critiques in the Auditor-General’s report are that “thousands of cybercrime reports were not acted on by the CRTC” and that “the CRTC does little to protect Canadians from online threats.” While the report focused on the failings of several federal police and intelligence agencies, it noted that the CRTC also plays a key, if obscure, role in the cybercrime fight that stands apart from its duties as an airwaves regulator.
“In an expedited fashion they did accelerate cleaning the devices or deleting the contents of the devices and returning them,” Ms. Hogan said when she appeared before the Commons public accounts committee Tuesday.
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