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U.S. bans maker of spyware that targeted a senator's phone.
The Treasury Department banned the company, Intellexa, from doing business in the United States.
The Treasury Department on Tuesday banned a notorious creator of software that can hack smartphones and turn them into surveillance devices from doing business in the United States. Predator and other major spyware programs boast capabilities such as secretly turning on the user’s microphone and camera, downloading their files without their knowledge and tracking their location. Multiple governments around the world “have deployed this technology to facilitate repression and enable human rights abuses, including to intimidate political opponents and curb dissent, limit freedom of expression, and monitor and target activists and journalists,” a Treasury Department press release on the sanctions said.
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