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What the MEPs in SEDE mean by spyware in this case is exploit and root kits being deployed by member states Interior/Home Affairs ministries and targeted at MEPs - not "mass surveillance" (which SEDE is largely indifferent about).

Spyware in EP parlance means rootkits and zero-day exploits.

This is largely a result of Predator which was co-developed in Czechia and Israel.