Alongside our report, Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi publishes a VSquare investigation which reveals that Hungarian domestic intelligence has used Webloc since at least 2022, and still does today.
This is the first confirmation of the use of ad-based surveillance technology in Europe:
https://vsquare.org/orban-spying-toolkit-cobwebs-webloc-hungary-spyware-citizen-lab
Wolfie Christl
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