{"id":18267,"date":"2025-03-27T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/italian-government-approved-use-of-spyware-on-members-of-refugee-ngo-mps-told\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:37:24","slug":"italian-government-approved-use-of-spyware-on-members-of-refugee-ngo-mps-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/italian-government-approved-use-of-spyware-on-members-of-refugee-ngo-mps-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian government approved use of spyware on members of refugee NGO, MPs told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National security committee is investigating whether secret services breached the law by using surveillance tool to monitor activists and journalists<\/p>\n<p>The Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard.<\/p>\n<p>Alfredo Mantovano, a cabinet undersecretary, made the admission during a classified meeting with Copasir, the parliamentary committee for national security, according to a person familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/27\/italian-government-approved-use-of-spyware-on-members-of-refugee-ngo-mps-told\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/672e5e3cf85da778421074bf44ea702be23fe6d1\/0_236_3543_2126\/master\/3543.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=191052efcca065346706737560554971\" title=\"Italian government approved use of spyware on members of refugee NGO, MPs told\" \/>National security committee is investigating whether secret services breached the law by using surveillance tool to monitor activists and journalists<br \/>\nThe Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard.<br \/>\nAlfredo Mantovano, a cabinet undersecretary, made the admission during a classified meeting with Copasir, the parliamentary committee for national security, according to a person familiar with the situation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National security committee is investigating whether secret services breached the law by using surveillance tool to monitor activists and journalists The Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanitarian NGO because they were allegedly deemed a possible threat to national security, MPs have heard. Alfredo Mantovano, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/italian-government-approved-use-of-spyware-on-members-of-refugee-ngo-mps-told\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Italian government approved use of spyware on members of refugee NGO, MPs told<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18268,"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\/18267"}],"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=18267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}