MEPs to discuss Pegasus spyware scandal

On Monday, Civil Liberties Committee MEPs will discuss what the Pegasus spyware revelations mean for fundamental rights.

Following the disclosure that information-harvesting spyware, created by the cyber surveillance company NSO Group, can be secretly installed on mobile phones and other devices, MEPs will debate the fundamental rights implications of such surveillance with the following guests:

• Laurent Richard (Executive Director of Forbidden Stories, winner of the 2021 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize)
• Etienne Maynier (technologist, Amnesty International's Security Lab)
• Wojciech Wiewiórowski, the European Data Protection Supervisor.

MEPs also debated the issue during the September plenary session. You can catch up with the debate here.

Where: Antall building, room 6Q2

When: Monday 29 November, 15.45 - 17.00

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