“Highly intrusive spyware threatens the essence of human rights”, writes Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in a “Comment” published on 27 January.
She looks back at the “Pegasus” investigation, which 18 months ago revealed the identification of over 50,000 telephone numbers of journalists, human rights defenders, academics, opposition leaders, etc. as “potential targets”.
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