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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Israel’s infamous cyber intelligence and surveillance company NSO Group has dominated headlines recently for selling its spyware, Pegasus, with the Israeli government’s approval to mostly authoritarian regimes around the world. They used it to spy on their citizens, activists, journalists, and even world leaders, with French president Emanuel Macron targeted by the software. This week, the Pegasus controversy played out on its home turf. Israeli police reportedly used the spyware without court authorisation to surveil the phones of dozens of Israelis, among them Netanyahu’s son and aides and w…