Move follows reports alleging that the army used Pegasus spyware software to hack the phone of a prominent rights activist
, allege that the Mexican army was monitoring private conversations in August of that year between Ramos and reporters from media outlets including El País and El Universal.found that it had been targeted using Pegasus in the same period that those discussions happened. The conversations took place on encrypted messaging platforms, meaning only a tool as sophisticated as Pegasus could have intercepted the chats.
“It’s a violation of my privacy, of my human rights,” said Ramos in a phone interview. “It obviously puts me at risk, it puts my family at risk, my collaborators, the victims.”when the army was accused of using Pegasus to hack the phones of lawyers investigating the disappearance of 43 students in 2014.
Human rights advocates say such use of sophisticated technology by the military is illegal, given that the military can’t investigate civilians, and even if it could, such an interference would require sign off from the Mexican judiciary. “The defense ministry doesn’t have the power to request that from a judge, that’s why they don’t do it,” said Leopoldo Maldonado, regional director for Article19, a freedom of expression advocacy group. “That’s why they do it illegally.”
The latest allegations come at a delicate moment for the Mexican government, which has faced intensifying scrutiny over the military’s role in human rights abuses, as well as its inability to meaningfully tackle the nation’s
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