Spying on journalists persists here and abroad
The cyber security chief at the Financial Times, Ahana Datta, Columbia Journalism Review, February 17, 2020, reports that a Middle Eastern government used spyware on the cell phones of reporters investigating surveillance of journalists and activists. Datta wrote, “…in my experience the incidence has spiked since the 2016 elections in Britain and America, when such efforts came off without consequence. State actors seem to feel they can now act with impunity.” It was revealed in