US announces visa restriction policy targeting spyware abuses

The U.S. will restrict visas for people “involved in the misuse of commercial spyware,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday. The new policy will be used against those “believed to facilitate or derive financial benefit from the misuse of commercial spyware” and who are involved in “developing, directing, or operationally controlling companies that furnish

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