Get on, get on Pegasus – This is (also) the difference between Hungary and Israel
Since August, the Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH) has inspected almost a hundred pegasus observations. Attila Péterfalvi, the organization ‘s president said on Monday that everything was fine with the Israeli spyware sightings against terrorists. Therefore, according to the NAIH, national security interests were rightly invoked in all of the cases investigated when spyware was deployed against journalists, executives, and economic operators who were uncomfortable with the government. Meanwhile, Israel….
The police testified
Israeli police have admitted to abusing the Israeli NSO’s spy software Pegasus – an error on Tuesday in the news portal Jedio Ahronot ynet.
“In some respects, the new position is changed by the newly disclosed findings”
– were informed by the police, referring to their previous resolution completely rejecting the unlawful surveillance of civilians in a case concerning the unauthorized interception of civilians’ telephones.
One and a half weeks ago, after an investigative report appeared in the economic paper Kalkaliszt, the attorney general even stated that, based on information received from the police, no anomalies had been discovered and law enforcement had acted in accordance with the law.
After the scandal that erupted in the wake of the newspaper article at the time, he claims that the interceptions were carried out only in accordance with the law, on the basis of court orders.
However, police on Tuesday announced that
“New cases have been revealed which, in some respects, change previous allegations.”
Aviháj Mandelblitthe Prosecutor General, who resigned these days, has set up an investigation team to crack down on secret wiretaps by the police, the illegal use of the Pegasus chemical program.
Not just so overwhelmed
The study group Amit Harari he also went to work under the leadership of a lawyer, Deputy Attorney General. The results of the work will be presented on 1 July.
The Israeli chemistry program Pegasus has been used to monitor journalists, government officials and human rights activists in several countries. Israel only allows governments to export cyber products for lawful use, prevent and investigate wages, and fight terrorism, and commits buyers to meet these conditions, the Israeli portal wrote.
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There is NAIH paper about it: the use of Pegasus in Hungary was not illegal
The National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority has released a document containing the findings of its own – initiative investigation into the use of “Pegasus” spyware, the statement said.