Israeli police find ‘legally debatable’ use of spyware by investigators

Admission follows allegations of snooping on mobile phones of protesters, politicians and criminal suspects

Israel's national police force has found evidence pointing to improper use of spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens' phones.

The announcement on Tuesday came two weeks after an Israeli newspaper reported a string of allegations that the police had used the NSO Group's Pegasus software to surveil protesters, politicians and criminal suspects without authorisation from a judge.