Democracies abuse spyware, too.
But that is exactly why the EU’s report on spyware abuses is a vital reminder. Some nominally democratic governments are using spyware to target opposition politicians, journalists, and others under the false pretense of fighting crime or protecting national security. This undermines privacy and political expression. It also undermines democracies’ messaging on fighting autocratic surveillance.
Controlling this technology is extremely difficult, as the kinds of export controls that governments place on physical goods, like weapons and chemicals, don’t translate in the same way to software. But to truly fight to protect privacy in the modern age, democracies must also get their own houses in
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