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NSO Group kept spying on WhatsApp users despite Meta lawsuit
Last week, NSO was ordered to pay Meta for targeting WhatsApp users. Now, TechCrunch has a report on the 1,000+ page transcript of the trial.
As soon as the verdict was read, Meta celebrated the outcome as “an important step forward for privacy and security.” The ruling capped a legal battle that stretched over five years, with the court also ordering NSO to hand over the code for Pegasus and its other spyware tools to WhatsApp. Despite the active legal challenge, the spyware maker kept targeting the chat app’s users, according to NSO Group’s research and development vice president Tamir Gazneli. In its official statement about the victory, Meta promised to publish unofficial trial transcripts for “researchers and journalists studying these threats and working to protect the public.” NSO, on the other hand, vowed to appeal.
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