EDRi

1/2 🚨 If you pay taxes in the EU, your money might have been used to enable the #spyware industry that spies on Europeans and harms our democracy.

💶 How exactly are EU public funds ending up in the hands of companies that are behind some of the biggest spyware scandals globally? We explore with Counter Balance for EUobserver ➡️ https://euobserver.com/210197/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/

It’s not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans

Millions of euros worth of EU subsidies and taxpayer money is fuelling the very market that leads to spying on journalists, activitists, politicians and people in the EU, and undermines our democracies. 

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Show threadEDRi12h ago

2/2 No more complicity, no more excuses. The evidence speaks for itself. We are calling on EU lawmakers to:

🙅🏽‍♀️ ensure no EU funds for the spyware market
🚫 impose full EU-wide ban on spyware and the industry behind it
🔎 improved transparency, due diligence and accountability of EU's financial bodies like European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund
🙌🏽 protect our ability to safely and securely communicate with each other by safeguarding end-to-end #encryption

Show threadConny Nasch10h ago
@edri Block Palantir.
Show thread🌈🌼Lena✨9h ago
@edri I am a #Hungarian tax resident. Between Orbán's palace, his plumber's yachts in Portofino, and non-existant railways to Thessaloniki, I'm surprised there is any money left to go to Palantir.