A year on from its launch and days after the Pall Mall Process held its second diplomatic conference, this time in Paris, participants are concerned that the initiative may struggle to surmount the next hurdle facing the effort to reform the spyware and commercial hacking market: getting buy-in from the market itself. That market for what are formally called commercial cyber intrusion capabilities (CCICs) is growing, as the conference organizers announced earlier this year. Those participating in the Pall Mall Process say that left unaddressed, this growth will produce more abuses of the technology targeting “journalists, human rights activists, political dissidents and opponents and foreign government officials,” as British intelligence warned in 2023.
As spyware market continues to expand, diplomatic Pall Mall Process hits a pivot point (Alexander Martin, The Record)
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