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To The European Commission, the European Council, the European Parliament, and EU governments

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We call on the European Union and its member states to demand an immediate global moratorium on the export, sale, transfer and use of surveillance technology. This technology has been used by repressive governments to abusively target journalists, activists, and human rights defenders, including in the EU.

Why is this important?

We like to imagine that we’re protected against the government spying into our personal lives. But headlines everywhere are breaking the story about a new kind of super-surveillance that means this era is over.

Governments can now easily target journalists, politicians, and even people like us with this digital surveillance. And they’re doing it across the world. [1]

And it’s not just our phone calls or texts — it’s contact lists, location data, photos and videos, too. The phone’s microphone and camera can even be remotely activated to covertly make recordings. [2]

Unfortunately, there’s very little that ordinary people like us can do to stop this most invasive kind of surveillance — unless we act together. The EU and our governments can take bold decisive action against this new kind of super-surveillance – by not allowing a market for this kind of technology.

This scandal is just at its beginning, and our governments will already be under the public eye. A petition to ban this kind of super-surveillance could push the EU to take a bold stand against it. Will you join?

References:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57881364
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/viktor-orban-using-nso-spyware-in-assault-on-media-data-suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/edward-snowden-calls-spyware-trade-ban-pegasus-revelations
https://www.independent.co.uk/world/pegasus-spyware-nso-activists-journalists-b1886317.html

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Recent comments

Christer

I care about my integrity

Els

we have to protect the privacy!

Rebeca

I want privacy!

Michael

Surveillance technology has been used to target and murder journalists, such as Jamal Khashoggi. It strikes at the heart of our democratic values. It should be banned.

Sue

This activity threatens everybody’s way of life. Politically, commercially, privately. It’s far worse than ‘Big Brother’. This facility would be open to anyone or organisation who have the will and the money.

Antoinette

Please politicians, protect us for super-surveillance tec hnoly and industry. It is taking freedom out of our lives and constant stress and mistrust in. Is this what people need?

Branimir

In order to preserve our own integrity, and the right to privacy, no one is allowed, and especially not governments, to usurp our right to privacy. That is why I am signing this petition and I am fighting with all of you. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank your movement for supporting the people of Serbia in the fight against the Rio Tinto pest corporation, which in cooperation with our government wants to destroy the natural environment and cause permanent damage to the natural resources this country possesses. Thank you very much.

Rachel

We need to protect and preserve a modicum if privacy for God’s sake.

Dan

Democracy

Drago

Everyone is allowed to read my writings but no one should be allowed to use it for other illegal purposes.

Kimberly

This is wrong and no one is safe from our corrupt power hungry tyrants!

Ljerka

The freedom of the whole world is at stake!

Katja

Stop this now!

Iman

Because it endangers democracy!

corien

Surveillance, as you rightly remark, is not only protection as we are made to believe. It is important that we start to look at it in another way, study its use, its users, its victims, spread this knowledge and develop legal, social and economic actions to control its usage.

Ervin

Europe is rapidly losing all moral ground to claim to be a champion of human rights and individual freedoms. We must reverse this dangerous tendency!

Anna

freedom and human rights are at stake

Georgina

Ovu peticiju treba da potpise svako ljudsko bice koje je punoljetno.

Märta-Lena

Without a free press we can not trust governments at all and they can act however the want, as they do in some countries.

Hans

Professional privacy is essential

Anne

Freedom can only be possible if privacy is protected!

Irshad

Privacy is an essential human right.

Beatriz

Everyone has the right for privacy and self-expression.

Peter

Super-surveillance infringes both our civil and human rights and acts only in the interests of power elites and state overreach.

Frank

It is important these people are held accountable and severely punished for breaching and using the Private data they access for power and greed or for any other reason. Have they No lives to Live...Where is the European (Data Protection) Commission on this please??

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