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The plenary session of the Hellenic Authority for Communications Security and Privacy (ADAE) on Wednesday addressed a request from opposition party PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis to be informed about the surveillance of his phone by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) in 2021.

A request by two prosecutors last year to check whether the 92 people targeted by illegal spyware Predator had also been surveilled by the country's intelligence service, EYP, remains pending four months after it was submitted to the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE.

Two Turkish nationals, aged 22 and 27, have been arrested in Hania, on the southern island of Crete, sparking speculation in the media about their activities.

The phone conversations of ministers through familiar communication apps are not secure, according to a warning issued by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) to government and top state officials.

The National Intelligence Service (EYP) has sent a letter to members of Greece's Cabinet warning that their telephones are not safe from wiretaps and eavesdroppers, Kathimerini has learned.

Greece's Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis requesting that a government regulation forbidding the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, from informing those who have been previously monitored by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) be declared unconstitutional.

Changes are expected in the board of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) on Thursday, after Parliament President Konstantinos Tassoulas called for a meeting of the body that approves appointments in independent authorities.

Measures that include a ban on circulation in specific regions' mountain and urban forests and other locations prone to fires are some of the decisions made at an extraordinary interministerial meeting held at the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry earlier on Monday on the fires raging in Greece.

Greek Journalist Thanasis Koukakis attends a European Parliament Inquiry hearing in Brussels amid an investigation into the use of the Pegasus spyware in Greece, 8 September 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET

Dutch MEP and president of the spyware investigation committee Sophie in 't Veld presents draft findings of the inquiry in Brussels, November 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET