Governments are still free to use the Pegasus software without human rights safeguards in place

Illustration by Gibrán Aquino (CC BY 4.0 International), first published La Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) from Mexico. In September 2022, Szabolcs Panyi, a Hungarian investigative journalist with Direkt36, published a story on how the Pegasus software was brought to Hungary. The report demonstrates how easily governments can exploit surveillance technologies without human rights safeguards in place. Panyi — also a target of Pegasus — explained the circumstances under which Pegasus was brought to Hungary and the National Security Service’s (NSS) role in the transaction. Direkt3…

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