WIRETAPPING


Request to cross-check lists of surveillance targets pending
NEWS

A request by two prosecutors last year to check whether the 92 people targeted by illegal spyware Predator had also been surveilled by the country’s intelligence service, EYP, remains pending four months after it was submitted to the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE.

US sanctions Intellexa, executives who targeted American journalists, government officials
NEWS

The Treasury Department announced Tuesday it has sanctioned two people and a Greece-based commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer that developed, operated and distributed technology used to target U.S. government officials, journalists and policy experts.  he sanctions target Intellexa Consortium, which the U.S. says has sold and distributed commercial spyware and […]


EYP: Ministers’ phones open to snooping
NEWS

The phone conversations of ministers through familiar communication apps are not secure, according to a warning issued by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) to government and top state officials.

Person behind bugged phones still a mystery
NEWS

More than 15 months after the Data Protection Authority started an investigation on the bugged cellphones of public officials and other individuals, it is still not yet clear who sent some of the spyware-infected messages.


Kasselakis criticizes PM’s remarks about ADAE chief
NEWS

The leader of Greece’s leftist opposition has criticized Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his remarks concerning the head of the Hellenic Authority for Communications Security and Privacy (ADAE), Christos Rammos, who is currently investigating the wiretapping scandal.

Court to discuss challenge of wiretapping regulation
NEWS

Greece’s Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis requesting that a government regulation forbidding the independent authority responsible for privacy from informing those who have been previously monitored by the National Intelligence Service be declared unconstitutional.

Single phone number linked to 11 people monitored by illegal spyware
NEWS

Eleven people whose phones were infected with illegal spyware Predator received a message from the same phone number, according to a report by Mega channel on Wednesday, in new revelations pertaining to the ongoing judicial investigation into Greece’s spyware scandal.



Privacy chief criticizes gov’t
WIRETAPPING CASE

The head of the Hellenic Authority for Communications Security and Privacy (ADAE), Christos Rammos, was strongly critical of the handling by the government and the former prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos, of the wiretapping case in his remarks on Thursday at the European Parliament’s spyware debate.

Prosecutors removed from probe had asked ADAE to cross-check spying orders
NEWS

The two public prosecutors investigating Greece’s wiretapping scandal who were taken off the case on Monday had asked the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, to check whether the 92 people targeted by illegal spyware Predator had also been surveilled by the country’s intelligence service, EYP.