Stop the phone hackers
To the European Commission, the European Parliament and EU Member States
Petition
We call on the EU to stop funding or investing in phone hacking technology or spyware from both Israeli companies and the wider commercial spyware industry.
Public money must never be used to support tools that can monitor journalists, activists, migrant-rights defenders, or ordinary people through their own phones.
The EU must ban spyware, cut all financial ties to the industry behind it, and protect people across Europe and our communications from unlawful digital surveillance.
Why is this important?
Right now, someone could read your messages, watch through your camera or track you. All without you knowing. [1]
This isn't science fiction. Across Europe, powerful spyware has been used against journalists, activists and people who dared to challenge those in power. [2]
Israeli corporations behind this technology are making billions selling tools that can secretly take control of your phone. [3]
It gets worse: a new scandal just revealed that the EU is funding this tech to monitor people like you and me. [4] And they refuse to stop.
Momentum is building to challenge them. Journalists are exposing the spyware industry. Individual politicians are demanding answers.
But unless citizens speak up, decision-makers will keep treating this as a problem for a few journalists rather than a threat to everyone’s rights.
Every signature added pushes these hackers away from our private lives!
References:
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-pegasus-how-surveillance-spyware-invades-phones
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/italian-government-approved-use-of-spyware-on-members-of-refugee-ngo-mps-told
- https://www.wired.com/story/ice-paragon-solutions-contract/
Three quarters of governments that acquired phone hacking tech and spyware bought it from companies based in or linked to Israel.
https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/03/why-does-the-global-spyware-industry-continue-to-thrive-trends-explanations-and-responses - https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/ice-reactivates-contract-with-spyware-maker-paragon/
https://edri.org/our-work/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/spyware-industry-eu-subsidies-surveillance-concers
https://euobserver.com/215485/eu-investment-body-stands-by-past-financial-support-for-israeli-spyware-firm
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