We now know what we could only have guessed: several EU governments have built surveillance states with the #Pegasus cyberweapon. /1 
Today, at an international press conference in the European Parliament, we showed how allegedly the #Spanish state, along with the #Polish and #Hungarian governments, are massively monitoring their own citizens without any court order or understandable reason. /2
It’s important for #Europe to be aware that #Pegasus wasn’t used in #Hungary to fight terrorism, but to monitor the political opponents of #Fidesz. It was also used to monitor government officials who were defending Hungarian national interests against the Russian government. /3
During the work of the #PEGA Committee we’ll investigate the abuses of the Hungarian, Polish and all the European governments who have abused these #cyberweapons. /4
All decision-makers involved in spying on civilians, businessmen, journalists, lawyers and politicians will be held accountable. /5
After all, the Pegasus scandal is about democracy. It is about the fact that governments have used terrorist cyber weapons against their own citizens.
This is unacceptable. /6
This is unacceptable. /6
A European response is needed: in parallel with the investigations, strict European legislation on cyber weapons must be put in place immediately so that such violations of human rights will never happen again. /7
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