On Thursday 2 December, 86 NGOs wrote to High Representative Josep Borrell and EU foreign ministers about the Israeli spyware Pegasus, which, according to a collective survey published over the summer, is used by some Member States, such as Hungary, to spy on journalists (see EUROPE B12765A8).
The letter, supported by Human Rights Watch, asks the Commission to sanction the company NSO Group, which created the software, and to ban its sale and use. On 3 December, the US added the company to...