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Episode: Suing spyware in Europe: news from the front! (39c3)
Description: In 2022, CitizenLab contacted a member of the Spanish non-profit IrÃdia to tell them that one of their members had likely been hacked with Pegasus spyware. The target, a lawyer, had been spied on by the Spanish government in 2020 because he represented a Catalan politician who was in prison. His phone was infected with Pegasus during the COVID-19 lockdown, on the same day he was having an online meeting with other lawyers working on the case.
IrÃdia and the lawyer (Andreu) decided to take the case to court. A few years later, he met with Data Rights and invited th...