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mysteryowl

(7,323 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 01:22 PM Nov 2019

US senator to investigate if foreign spyware used to target Americans

Source: The Guardian

Exclusive: Ron Wyden says hacking claims raise “serious national security issues”.
An influential US senator has told the Guardian he is examining the possible hacking of US citizens with technology sold by the NSO Group and other foreign surveillance companies, an issue he said raised “serious national security issues”.

Ron Wyden’s remarks come just weeks after a lawsuit was filed by WhatsApp against NSO, alleging that the Israeli company’s malware was used against 1,400 WhatsApp users in 20 countries over a 14-day period this year.

The lawsuit says that more than 100 human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and academics were among those targeted, and that at least one US phone number with a Washington DC area code was among those potentially compromised.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/26/us-senator-investigates-if-foreign-spyware-used-to-target-americans-ron-wyden-whatsapp-lawsuit-nso-group



It is important, plus we need to flush out any domestic spyware usage, of which I am guessing does exist.
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