UK to host spyware firm accused of aiding human rights abuses

Exclusive: NSO Group technology is allegedly used by autocratic regimes to spy on journalists and activists

The British government is helping a controversial Israeli spyware company to market its surveillance technologies at a secretive trade fair visited by repressive regimes, the Guardian can reveal.

The government will host the NSO Group, which sells technology that has allegedly been used by autocratic regimes to spy on the private messages of journalists and human rights activists, at the closed Security and Policing trade fair in Hampshire next month.