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WASHINGTON - US authorities on Wednesday put the Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware at the center of a scandal over surveillance of journalists and officials on a blacklist of restricted companies.
"These tools enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression," says US Commerce Department.
'There hasn't been enough done', Amnesty tells MPs in wake of revelations that phones of British nationals were targeted with NSO software
US says NSO Group, the company behind Pegasus, and Candiru enabled governments to 'threaten the rules-based international order'
With this move, the US government has acknowledged what Amnesty and other activists have been saying for years: NSO Group’s spyware is a tool of repression.