Jan Penfrat @ilumium@mastodon.cloud

Just to get this right: #Russia's chief fascist #Rogosin has questioned the legitimacy of #Lithuania's borders.

Source: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ukraine-krieg-newsblog-1.5606735

When the Greens are going with the times

@ilumium Most importantly, they call on the EU to "support and accelerate" the development and internationalisation of #DigitalCommons, and to establish a member state working group to "mobilise funding".

https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/declaration_of_the_presidency_european_initiative_for_digital_commons_cle894d85.pdf

Via @ldubost

The EU's outgoing presidency and the Council just passed a remarkable declaration about #DigitalCommons, acknowledging that they "contribute to the preservation and collective control and valuation of data" & "improve the security of digital tools and innovations."

#Malta being a shithole again, trampling on human rights. Honestly how this country can be part of the EU is beyond me.

"US woman left traumatised after Malta hospital refuses life-saving #abortion"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/22/us-woman-left-traumatised-after-malta-hospital-refuses-life-saving-abortion

To conclude, Rapporteur Sophie In 't Veld asks is #NSO was willing to work with Amnesty Tech and the EP to "go through every single case of abusive use of #Pegasus".

Answer: Kind of yes, but we won't be able to do much probably b/c we'd need customer permission.

So I guess that's a no.

The only positive aspect in #NSO's responses I could find so far: they made explicit reference to @FbdnStories and @AmnestyTech reporting.

Other good Qs from MEP @salima_yenbou: What is #NSOs definition of terrorism?

A: "a clear threat of violence against an institution" -- this sounds veeery broad to me and could easily include protesters in oppressive regimes.

And now Polish MEP Sikorski on fire:

"I am contacting you as a victim, how can I now that I have been targeted by #Pegasus?"

"Are you proud of targeting the Polish opposition?"

Excellent question by @HNeumannMEP: What kind of regulation would be needed for companies like #NSO?

NSO answer: "We would need something like weapons controls."

So the company agrees they are selling weapons??

MEP Körner follows his colleague Heide with good questions on numbers, #NSO refuses to respond to most of them.

Except: More than 5 EU member states are NSO customer.

#NSO says total number of #Pegasus targets is about 13,000 per year, used by 60 customers. That makes ~217 targets per customer.

Independent research said the number of targets was over 50,000.

https://forbiddenstories.org/case/the-pegasus-project/

Hahaha, #NSO: "we are first and foremost a research and development company" LMAO

NSO dude keeps on claiming how they take #HumanRights and international law seriously but refuses to say anything meaningful about the publicly known cases of abuse in #Spain, #Poland, #Hungary, etc.

Another great #Pegasus committee moment captured by @jsrailton over at Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1539251613726023682