On Tuesday 29 November, the members of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee, named after the Israeli software Pegasus and investigating the use of spyware in the EU, welcomed the report by Sophie in ‘t Veld (Renew Europe, Dutch) presented on 8 November(see EUROPE B13059A20), which calls for a moratorium on the use of spyware in the EU and for a common legislative framework to determine the exceptional situations in which it can be used.
However, much of the discussion focused on...