Musk joins the right-wing legal crusade against tech researchers
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As information started to leak out from the... everywhere about NSO Group's secondhand contribution to surveillance abuses all over the world, the world (except for the worst of NSO's customers) began taking action. Even the government that facilitated many of NSO's sales to human rights violators decided it might be time to toss a few…
The investigation revealed that Riva Networks, a contractor working with the FBI, signed a deal in November 2021 to provide technological assistance.
The FBI was found to be using surveillance software from the Israeli-based NSO Group, despite a November 2021 White House ban on the company.