Fianna Fáil will renew scrutiny of Ireland’s links with companies selling the Predator spyware after a European Parliament committee investigating abuse of the technology reported a lack of cooperation from the Irish Government on the issue. Citing reporting by The Currency last year, a report prepared by the Pegasus committee (named after an earlier piece of spyware used to infect the phones of MEPs, activists and journalists, or Pega in short) has now confirmed earlier draft findings that “Ireland has become the member State where some of the main spyware companies involved in scandals have registered, owing to its fiscal…

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