US supreme court lets WhatsApp pursue Pegasus spyware lawsuit
by Reuters from World news | The Guardian on (#67MSV)
Court rejects NSO claim it could not be sued because it was acting as agent for unidentified foreign governments
The US supreme court has let Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.
The justices turned away NSO's appeal over a lower court's decision that the lawsuit could move forward. NSO has argued that it is immune to being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it installed the Pegasus spyware.
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