{"id":8075,"date":"2022-11-28T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/meps-spyware-inquiry-targeted-by-disinformation-campaign-say-experts\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:40:10","slug":"meps-spyware-inquiry-targeted-by-disinformation-campaign-say-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/meps-spyware-inquiry-targeted-by-disinformation-campaign-say-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs\u2019 spyware inquiry targeted by disinformation campaign, say experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European parliament is investigating Pegasus, a powerful surveillance tool used by governments around the world<\/p>\n<p>Victims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged \u201cdisinformation campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The warning, contained in a letter to MEPs signed by the victims, academics and some of the world\u2019s most renowned surveillance experts, followed news last week that two individuals accused of trying to discredit widely accepted evidence in spyware cases in Spain had been invited to appear before the committee investigating abuse of hacking software.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/28\/pegasus-eu-parliament-spyware-inquiry-targeted-disinformation-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e7b58c690400ce81e1a4682c3d7b7325098a0348\/0_269_5199_3119\/master\/5199.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ac31b0c5f7273d0f700c68818542948d\" title=\"MEPs\u2019 spyware inquiry targeted by disinformation campaign, say experts\" \/>European parliament is investigating Pegasus, a powerful surveillance tool used by governments around the world<br \/>\nVictims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged \u201cdisinformation campaign\u201d.<br \/>\nThe warning, contained in a letter to MEPs signed by the victims, academics and some of the world\u2019s most renowned surveillance experts, followed news last week that two individuals accused of trying to discredit widely accepted evidence in spyware cases in Spain had been invited to appear before the committee investigating abuse of hacking software. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European parliament is investigating Pegasus, a powerful surveillance tool used by governments around the world Victims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged \u201cdisinformation campaign\u201d. The warning, contained in a letter to MEPs signed by the victims, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/meps-spyware-inquiry-targeted-by-disinformation-campaign-say-experts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MEPs\u2019 spyware inquiry targeted by disinformation campaign, say experts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8076,"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\/8075"}],"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=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}