There’s a growing spyware industry that uses human rights-abusing technology to spy on people’s daily business. But on March 27,  just two days before the launch of the 2nd U.S. Summit for Democracy in Washington D.C., there was a major victory for human rights activists when President Biden made an executive order to ban US  federal agencies from using commercial spyware.This is a significant victory for activists in this space but does it mean the end of spyware globally?