European Parliament

Chat Control 1.0 expired in April after Parliament rejected it. It is back because a rejected bill doesn't clear the agenda: the problem the government wanted solved is still 'a priority,' so the same text returns with new procedural parameters.

One developer-activist's blunt reframe: chats on Meta, Google and Microsoft were never private anyway, as Snowden showed, so the real move is leaving those platforms rather than petitioning Strasbourg.

Citizen Lab reports that Kouloglou — Greek journalist, former MEP, substitute member of the Parliament's PEGA spyware inquiry — had his iPhone infected with NSO Group's Pegasus around October 2022 and again March 2023, timed to hearings and the final report. No specific government is named, but the operator overlaps with one that targeted exiled Russian and Belarusian journalists.

The thread reframes it: this may be an EU member state spying on the EU's own investigators — the calls coming from inside the house.