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Already in the EU Spain, Poland and Hungary are illegally using Pegasus spyware to spy their own opposition politicians. Why they should settle less with lawful means if they already use illegal means.



That's some secret service or at least non public things though, what is being regulated is "clear day" practices

I know it's not the best, but still


And why do you think this regulation would stop abuse if it were made available? Poland has corrupted judges who were onboard with opposition spying.

"But the commission cannot do much – CBA [Central Anticorruption Bureau] management and the Constitutional Tribunal, packed with PiS [judges], are obstructing its proceedings. In such an environment, any work based on facts and merit is pretty much impossible.”"

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/02/25/pegasus-in-poland-a-fli...


Regulation is not to stop abuse of the law, regulation is made to say what can be done lawfully


But, in this case, we are not talking only about regulation, but having a law-mandated backdoor in the every device on the planet.

Stopping abuse is not to have that backdoor.




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