US blacklists Israeli maker of Pegasus spyware
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.
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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.
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.
Biden administration says Israeli company’s spyware enables ‘repression’, used to target journalists and activists.
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