If we want to still have privacy, we need to ban spyware

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Three years have passed since the Pegasus scandal first broke into the public. Yet, we still haven't fixed the surveillance industry. Quite the opposite, actually: the spyware problem keeps getting bigger.

It's in this light that a group of civil societies wrote an open letter on Tuesday, September 3, calling on EU regulators to take more decisive action against the threats posed by the use of spyware. For the experts it isn't negotiable – the EU Commission should propose a legal framework that includes "an EU-wide ban on the production, export, sale, import, acquisition, transfer, servicing and use of spyware."