“Predatorgate" Greek spying scandal results in guilty verdicts by the Court of the EU against 4 defendants for “breaching the confidentiality of telephone communications,” “tampering with a personal-data filing system on a repeated basis,” and “illegal access to an information system or data.”

Nikos Androulakis, leader of the main opposition PASOK party in Greece discovered Predator software had been installed on his phone in 2022 leading to an investigation.

Defendants received combined prison sentences totaling 126 years. https://www.politico.eu/article/predatorgate-greece-court-sentences-predator-spyware-gang/ #Greece #Spying #Predatorgate #Privacy #DataPrivacy #PredatorSoftware #Guilty #MobilePhone #Liability #SpyWare

U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) (on Dec 30) removed three individuals from the specially designated nationals list.

All three have been linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind the commercial spyware known as Predator. No reason was given why they were removed from the list. https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed
#Intellexa #PredatorSoftware #Predator #Spyware #Risk #Privacy #PersonlData #Mobility #HumanRights #NationalSecurity #OFAS #USTreasury