{"id":20805,"date":"2025-11-11T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/tech-giants-vow-to-defend-users-in-us-as-spyware-companies-make-inroads-with-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:37:15","slug":"tech-giants-vow-to-defend-users-in-us-as-spyware-companies-make-inroads-with-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/tech-giants-vow-to-defend-users-in-us-as-spyware-companies-make-inroads-with-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/apple\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/whatsapp\">WhatsApp<\/a> have vowed to keep warning users if their mobile phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them, including in the US, as two spyware makers seek to make inroads with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two technology giants made their statements in response to queries from the Guardian as the two cyberweapons makers \u2013 both founded in Israel and now owned by American investors \u2013 are aggressively pursuing access to the US market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/10\/apple-whatsapp-spyware-paragon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/59ca79b2f7bb1c126ce179df4fdead51fa4ca427\/2776_1658_2368_1896\/master\/2368.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d1b21b6ab905a0204c09c749c04aa15a\" title=\"Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration\" \/>Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them<br \/>\nApple and WhatsApp have vowed to keep warning users if their mobile phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them, including in the US, as two spyware makers seek to make inroads with the Trump administration.<br \/>\nThe two technology giants made their statements in response to queries from the Guardian as the two cyberweapons makers \u2013 both founded in Israel and now owned by American investors \u2013 are aggressively pursuing access to the US market. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them Apple and WhatsApp have vowed to keep warning users if their mobile phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them, including in the US, as two spyware makers seek to make inroads &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/tech-giants-vow-to-defend-users-in-us-as-spyware-companies-make-inroads-with-trump-administration\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}