Legal Research

The PEGA Committee highlighted in May 2023 how existing legal frameworks enable mercenary spyware abuse while offering victims insufficient recourse. Our legal research initiative addresses this systemic failure by analyzing EU member state and European legislation that permits such abuse and developing concrete reform proposals with viable reparation mechanisms for victims.

We focus our research efforts on three operational areas.

1. Legislative analysis examines current and proposed laws related to digital surveillance, privacy, and cybercrime. Rather than academic exercises, these reviews identify specific legal gaps that enable spyware abuse and develop actionable reform recommendations.
2. Reparation research investigates existing and potential mechanisms for providing victims meaningful compensation. This includes studying successful precedents from other jurisdictions and proposing models adaptable to EU member states.
3. Strategic reporting translates our findings into policy documents designed to influence legislators, legal professionals, and civil society organizations.

Our research methodology prioritizes practical application over theoretical analysis. We publish annual strategic reports with concrete recommendations targeting the legislators from EU member states and European Parliament.

Each report includes specific legislative language and implementation strategies.

Following each publication, we conduct briefings with legislators and NGOs to ensure our findings reach decision-makers who can act on them.

The research serves a dual purpose: immediate policy influence and long-term legal precedent building.

This work functions as intelligence gathering for the broader digital rights movement. When surveillance abuse becomes legally untenable rather than merely morally objectionable, the political calculus changes. Legal research provides the ammunition policy advocates need to demand systematic reform rather than incremental adjustments.