Non-binding vote bans surveillance software after concluding Hungary and Poland used it to track journalists and opponents
The EU needs tighter regulation of the spyware industry, a European parliament special committee has said, after concluding that Hungary and Poland had used surveillance software toA special European parliament committee voted on Monday for a temporary ban on the sale, acquisition and use of spyware while the bloc draws up common EU standards based on international law.
In its resolution, the Pegasus committee said such actions were “a severe violation of fundamental rights” and “a gross violation” of EU export rules, namely the “dual-use regulation”, which prohibits the sale of products that can be used by authoritarian regimes to repress their own people. The final report and list of recommendations follow a year-long investigation by the committee, which was set up after 80 journalists, working with the French non-profit group Forbidden Stories, revealed that politicians and activists were being targeted by governments that had bought Pegasus spyware from the Israeli firm NSO Group.
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