In an exclusive with the New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow, Citizen Lab researchers reveal the presence of Pegasus spyware on the phones of 65 activists, politicians, and civil society groups in Catalonia. The research uncovered the largest number of confirmed spyware victims and targets in a single case, including every Catalan president since 2010. Given the ever-expanding list of countries using Pegasus—including several liberal democracies—Citizen Lab fellow Elies Campo says the cases involving Catalonia “were probably just the tip of the iceberg.”
The New Yorker How democracies spy on their citizens
By Miles Kenyon