![]() ![]() ![]() The scope of spyware use is unknown – but clearly enormous. As a recent Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (which we authored) i dentifies, these tools – manufactured in the USA, the EU, China, Israel, and the UAE – not only allow access to targets’ communications, contacts, geolocation and metadata, but even allow users to delete information or plant incriminating data, all while hiding their tracks. ![]() Since the worldwide media investigation into the leaked list of targets of the Pegasus spyware technology, we can no longer ignore the excesses of States using covert digital surveillance tools originally designed for counter-terrorism purposes to spy on politicians, journalists, human rights activists, lawyers, and ordinary citizens with no links to terrorism. By Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Adriana Edmeades Jones ![]()
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