In recent years, the Polish government under President Donald Tusk has investigated the previous government's alleged use and misuse of Pegasus cell phone spyware.
On Monday, Piotr Pogonowski, the former head of Poland's internal security service, was arrested and forcibly taken to testify before parliament as part of the current government's investigation into allegations of spyware abuse carried out in recent years under the previous government. According to the Financial Times, the Justice (PiS) Party.
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Pogonowski reportedly ignored three subpoenas to testify before a Polish parliamentary committee.
In 2021, Citizen Lab and Amnesty International revealed that NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was used by three former Polish government critics, including a senator who was allegedly hacked dozens of times before the 2019 parliamentary elections. It was concluded that it was used against In 2023, the Polish Senate concluded that the use of Pegasus in the country was illegal.