An interesting and still ignored aspect, sexist, in case wiretapping Artemis Sifford, a former security manager at META and a victim of both EYP and malware surveillance, noted among other things in her speech at the anniversary of the investigation into the InsideStory scandal last Thursday. Predator.

Many women were included in the list of victims, either because of their own status, or as partners, wives, girlfriends of the victims. The first feeling is one of abuse, Ms Sifford pointed out, highlighting the similarities to sexual abuse: doubts about attack by third parties, the victim’s suspicion of everyone, fear of a public complaint, the constant question of “why me?”, and the possible guilt that the victim 24 hours after her speech, Ms. Sifford was at the Delphic Forum, and according to her social media post, she faced precisely this kind of patriarchal perception from an ND operative who accused her of being she allowed herself to be manipulated by the opposition, he pointed out, declared that she was “not important enough” to be a victim of surveillance, and finally invited her to leave the country.

In a crowded ESIEA hall last Thursday, the audience was diverse, from opposition supporters and investigative journalists to former and current ND voters critical of the way the government is doing, PASOK president Nikos Androulakis, former culture minister Aristidis Baltas and an MEP by SYRIZA Stelios Kuloglou.

In addition to Ms. Sifford, speakers at the event were Zacharias Kesses, an Athens-based lawyer who represents Predator victims in Greece and at the European Court of Human Rights, and Katerina Papanikolaou, a member of the independent Communications Privacy Protection Authority (ADAE), who turned out to be the main institutional counterweight to the wiretapping case. The coordination was carried out by the editor-in-chief of Inside Story Katerina Lombardia. Before the start of the speeches, a video message from MEP and rapporteur of the EPGA committee on wiretapping Sophie in’t Veld was shown.

In a statement, the PASOK president praised the role of investigative journalism, especially InsideStory and Tasos Telloglu, as well as independent authorities in clarifying the case and promised “that if PASOK enters the government, this will be a point of programmatic convergence to become an Investigation Committee again, where no one can’t abuse privacy.” At the same time, he promised to change the law on informing victims who apply to the anti-corruption commission to find out if they are under supervision, who, based on the current law of December 2022, must wait three years until it is decided whether they will be informed .