Petition urges EU to cut funding to spyware industry and ban phone hacking technology
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Summary
A petition calling on the European Union to stop funding or investing in phone hacking technology and spyware, particularly from Israeli companies and the broader commercial spyware industry. The petition argues that public money should not support tools that can monitor journalists, activists, migrant-rights defenders, and ordinary citizens. It demands that the EU ban spyware, cut all financial ties to the spyware industry, and protect people across Europe from unlawful digital surveillance.
Key quotes
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Public money must never be used to support tools that can monitor journalists, activists, migrant-rights defenders, or ordinary people through their own phones.
The EU must ban spyware, cut all financial ties to the industry behind it, and protect people across Europe and our communications from unlawful digital surveillance.
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