More than 200 journalists called on members of the European Parliament on Thursday to introduce an absolute ban on surveillance of the press through spyware in the upcoming European Media Freedom Act.
Spyware, which secretly takes over electronic devices without being detected, puts journalists around the world at risk of increased harassment and violence and sometimes precedes imprisonment.
In the letter, journalists living in the European Union detail how such intrusive surveillance threatens their ability to work and their rights to privacy and their sources’ confidentiality.
Read the full letter below.
Also read more about the chilling impact spyware has had on press freedom in CPJ’s special report “Zero-Click Spyware: Enemy of the Press.”
This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.
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