If we want to continue having privacy, we must ban spyware


It's been three years since the Pegasus scandal became public. Yet we still haven't solved the problem of surveillance. Quite the contrary: the spyware problem continues to grow.

In this regard, a group of civil society organisations wrote an open letter on Tuesday 3 September calling on EU regulators to take more decisive action against the threats posed by the use of spyware. For experts, it is non-negotiable: the European Commission should propose a legal framework that includes “an EU-wide ban on the production, export, sale, import, acquisition, transfer, maintenance and use of spyware.”



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