Civil Society Joint Statement on the Use of Surveillance Spyware

The recently adopted European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) sets a troubling precedent. Despite its commendable intentions, the law fails to fully protect journalists from spyware, lacking essential safeguards against their surveillance and creating sweeping legal grounds for its use against them in the EU. Consequently, both spyware victims and EU society as a whole still await an appropriate institutional response to this threat to fundamental rights.