You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

U.S. Blacklists Israel’s NSO Group, Whose Spyware Infected Phones of Journalists, Dissidents

HeadlineNov 04, 2021

The U.S. has added the Israeli firm NSO Group to a trade blacklist following reports its Pegasus spyware was used by governments to target activists, journalists and government officials. NSO’s spyware has been used on phones belonging to family members of assassinated Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, and reporters and dissidents from the United Arab Emirates and Mexico, among others. Click here to see our full coverage of this issue.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top