As we learn from the press reports of the European Parliament, today MEPs from the Civil Liberties Committee will discuss what the disclosure of Pegasus spyware means for fundamental rights.
A scandal with a surveillance app called Pegasus
The spyware for gathering information is developed by the NSO Group, a cyber surveillance company. It can be secretly installed on mobile phones and other devices. MEPs will discuss the fundamental rights implications of such supervision with the following guests:
- Laurent Richard (executive director Forbidden Stories , award winner Daphne Caruana Galizia 2021)
- Etienne Maynier (technologist, Security Laboratory Amnesty International)
- Wojciech Wiewiorowski, European Data Protection Supervisor
Also in Poland recently it got loud about a certain case, with a surveillance app called Pegasus in the background. It was then that we learned that the prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek received an alert from Apple about a possible cyber attack on her phone by state services. Importantly, however, no country was mentioned by name in this warning. In Poland, Jan Grabiec, a member of the Civic Coalition, announced that a meeting of the Digitization of Innovation and Modern Technologies Committee would be convened on this matter.
Source: European Parliament
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