{"id":11757,"date":"2023-10-03T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/meps-vote-against-amendment-to-stop-eu-governments-spying-on-journalists\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:40:50","slug":"meps-vote-against-amendment-to-stop-eu-governments-spying-on-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/meps-vote-against-amendment-to-stop-eu-governments-spying-on-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs vote against amendment to stop EU governments spying on journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians opt for change they say amounts to de facto ban on spyware but free speech campaigners dispute claim<\/p>\n<p>An attempt to stop EU governments from being able to insert spyware on journalists\u2019 phones on the grounds of national security is \u201cdead\u201d, campaigners have said after a vote in the European parliament on new media laws.<\/p>\n<p>MEPs voted against an amendment to scrap the right to surveil journalists in the European Media Freedom Act in Strasbourg on Tuesday, pitting themselves against free speech campaigners.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/03\/meps-vote-against-amendment-to-stop-eu-governments-spying-on-journalists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/14fa5b59c2a5656f90a9e49d8c46530aa1526341\/0_119_4812_2888\/master\/4812.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e4bbd71550cebb83d3fbfc5d81bd8ee\" title=\"MEPs vote against amendment to stop EU governments spying on journalists\" \/>Politicians opt for change they say amounts to de facto ban on spyware but free speech campaigners dispute claim<br \/>\nAn attempt to stop EU governments from being able to insert spyware on journalists\u2019 phones on the grounds of national security is \u201cdead\u201d, campaigners have said after a vote in the European parliament on new media laws.<br \/>\nMEPs voted against an amendment to scrap the right to surveil journalists in the European Media Freedom Act in Strasbourg on Tuesday, pitting themselves against free speech campaigners. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians opt for change they say amounts to de facto ban on spyware but free speech campaigners dispute claim An attempt to stop EU governments from being able to insert spyware on journalists\u2019 phones on the grounds of national security is \u201cdead\u201d, campaigners have said after a vote in the European parliament on new media &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/meps-vote-against-amendment-to-stop-eu-governments-spying-on-journalists\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MEPs vote against amendment to stop EU governments spying on journalists<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}