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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
A petition by PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Nikos Androulakis, who is challenging a government regulation preventing citizens who were wiretapped for security reasons from learning why they were targeted, will be discussed by the Council of State in its plenary session on Friday.
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.
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.
Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini has issued an order to the first-instance prosecutor’s office responsible for investigating the Predator wiretapping scandal up to the present day.
The newly-elected leader of the main opposition, Stefanos Kasselakis, accused the government on Thursday of attempting an “institutional coup” through its changes to the boards of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) and of the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR).
Changes are expected in the board of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) on Thursday, after Parliament President Konstantinos Tassoulas called for a meeting of the body that approves appointments in independent authorities.
PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis told lawmakers on Wednesday that he has learned of an additional attempt to tap his phone with illegal spyware apart from the two that were made public last year.
The United States has added two digital surveillance firms operating from Europe – Intellexa and Cytox – to a blacklist of companies acting against American interests.
PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis said on Thursday he believes Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis knew about the wiretaps on his phone by the National intelligence Agency (EYP) and the efforts to infect it with the illegal spyware Predator.
PASOK-KINAl leader Nikos Androulakis said on Thursday that the Greek prime minister’s admission during a television debate that he does not constitute a threat to the country’s security indicates that he knows why he was really wiretapped by intelligence agency EYP.
European Union lawmakers investigating the use of Pegasus spyware against opposition politicians and journalists on Tuesday raised deep concern about abuses in Hungary and Poland and lamented a lack of cooperation with their inquiry.
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