Vas Panagiotopoulos
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Vas Panagiotopoulos
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Journalist interested in #surveillance & #pressfreedom | Contributor: @wired.com | @ftm.eu | Covers 🇬🇷 for @rsf.org | Researcher: @deakinuniversity.bsky.social

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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Referring to #EMFA Art.4 [cl.5] list of serious crimes, Data Rights' Lori Roussey said: “In the name of intellectual property rights, we can unleash cybersecurity risks that put everybody's devices at risk.” Also, “environmental activists have been more & more sued based on organised crime reasons.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
EDRi's @aajanovic.bsky.social said: “The core of the right to privacy is inherently affected by these tools because they cannot be deployed in a way that is proportional or necessary & that is why we believe that in the current framework #spyware is already banned. But this has to be enforced.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“Soft law is not sufficient,” said fmr 🇺🇳 @niaolainf.bsky.social. “The pretence that these tools are like any other tools is factually & legally incorrect. 
The more you normalise this technology for use within democracies, the more likely you are to make this tech available [to non-state groups].”
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Paragon 🇮🇹victim @fcancellato.bsky.social said: “The temptation [for governments] is too high not to use [spyware] & we have to start from here. As citizens, we are not protected. Because such abuse is systemic. I will spend any minute of my life until I retire, to try to find out what happened.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“I do not feel [there is] any interest from @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social,” said MEP @saskiabricmont.bsky.social.

🚫“It is absolutely unbelievable that EU taxpayer's money is supporting spyware companies that have abused human rights & we finance them to do so! It's just incredible, isn't it?
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM