EU Data Protection Watchdog Calls for Ban on Pegasus-like Commercial Spyware

From thehackernews.com

The European Union’s data protection authority on Tuesday called for a ban on the development and the use of Pegasus-like commercial spyware in the region, calling out the technology’s “unprecedented level of intrusiveness” that could endanger users’ right to privacy.

“Pegasus constitutes a paradigm shift in terms of access to private communications and devices, which is able to affect the very essence of our fundamental rights, in particular the right to privacy,” the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said in its preliminary remarks. “This fact makes its use incompatible with our democratic values.”

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