https://www.cyberscoop.com/nso-group-export-license-revoke-amnesty-international/
By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
May 12, 2019
Human rights advocates, including Amnesty International, plan to file a
petition Tuesday in Israeli court to revoke mobile spyware vendor NSO Group’s
export license, citing alleged abuses stemming from the vendor’s technology.
The legal action is an escalation in the confrontation between civil society
groups and NSO Group, and comes after the company’s Pegasus surveillance
software was reportedly used to target an Amnesty International researcher.
Pegasus is so potent in its ability to compromise a mobile phone that it
requires a license from the Israeli defense ministry to export.
Where NSO Group’s spyware has been reportedly been misused, “we’re going to
keep looking for accountability on a case-by-case basis,” said Amnesty’s Danna
Ingleton, who will submit an affidavit as part of the court filing. “In the
meantime, there has to be enough evidence to revoke the export license.”
The legal motion, to be submitted in the District Court of Tel Aviv, is an
attempt to halt the proliferation of the spying tools at its source, said
Ingleton, who is deputy program manager of Amnesty’s technology program.
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