Spyware for sale: the booming trade in surveillance tech
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Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi, whose number was on a leaked list of phones reportedly being targeted by Israeli-made spyware, looks at his mobile phone on July 20, 2021 in Budapest (GERGELY BESENYEI / AFP)
PARIS Israel’s NSO Group is in the eye of a storm over its Pegasus spyware but it is far from the only company helping governments with their covert surveillance operations.
Explosive claims that Pegasus was used to spy on activists and even heads of state have shone a spotlight on the software, which allows highly intrusive access to a person’s mobile phone.
But NSO is merely one player in an industry that has quietly boomed in recent years, arming even cash-strapped governments with powerful surveillance technology.
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