Thursday, 14 October 2021

Pegasus project consortium awarded EU prize for spyware revelations

Group of 17 organisations including the Guardian win inaugural Daphne Caruana Galizia prize for journalism

The European parliament has jointly awarded a major journalism prize to a consortium of 17 media outlets including the Guardian for the Pegasus spyware scandal revelations.

A series of stories over the summer revealed evidence that global clients of the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group had identified human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and leading political figures, including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, as potential targets for phone-hacking software.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3vjXd99

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