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Civil society’s push to hold NSO Group accountable for its Pegasus spyware is working. Here’s what the Biden administration can do next.

The theme was announced during COLPIN, Latin America’s major gathering of investigative journalists, which took place in Canelones, Uruguay. The

The confirmation was the government’s first real engagement with allegations involving global surveillance of journalists and activists, including many Hungarians, described by an international consortium of journalists for the Pegasus Project in July, according to Szabolcs Panyi, the investigative reporter who broke the story for Hungarian news outlet Direkt 36. Kósa’s statement came the day after the United States Department of Commerce imposed trade limits on

The Guardian has surpassed 1 million digital subscriptions*, with digital subscriptions* in the US and Australia rising by 13% vs prior year. The company has grown its total digital recurring support by 87% in just three years.

As of the end of November, the Guardian had 419,541 digital subscribers and 580,494 recurring contributions, for a total of 1,000,035.

Two leaders in the Presidential Guard, the agency responsible for providing protection to Hungary’s president, János Áder, has also been targeted by Pegasus

Pegasus, the spyware popular with authoritarian countries, needs to be put out to pasture.

According to Amnesty International, the phones of four Kazakh activists were confirmed to have been infected with the Pegasus spyware. There are likely more.

The U.S. is cracking down on international spyware. The new twist? The spyware companies are headquartered in allied nations. "These tools are allegedly used in a way that raises a human rights issue for the U.S. government." 

British Journalism Awards also recognises Marina Hyde, Sirin Kale, Lucy Osborne and the Observer’s James Tapper