{"id":2275,"date":"2021-07-23T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/how-nso-became-the-company-whose-software-can-spy-on-the-world\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:40:28","slug":"how-nso-became-the-company-whose-software-can-spy-on-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/how-nso-became-the-company-whose-software-can-spy-on-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How NSO became the company whose software can spy on the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pegasus project has raised new concerns about the Israeli firm, which is a world leader in the niche surveillance market<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, when NSO Group was facing intense scrutiny, new investors in the Israeli surveillance company were on a PR offensive to reassure human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>In an exchange of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/download\/Documents\/DOC1004362019ENGLISH.PDF\">public letters<\/a> in 2019, they told Amnesty International and other activists that they would do \u201cwhatever is necessary\u201d to ensure NSO\u2019s weapons-grade software would only be used to fight crime and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/23\/how-nso-became-the-company-whose-software-can-spy-on-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb0d2a4d716e07b28e8a7e246a2393b0e2b7bb5b\/0_0_2560_1536\/master\/2560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=390a30e2dc59e3bce096f0f1391c9b0a\" title=\"How NSO became the company whose software can spy on the world\" \/>The Pegasus project has raised new concerns about the Israeli firm, which is a world leader in the niche surveillance market<br \/>\nIn 2019, when NSO Group was facing intense scrutiny, new investors in the Israeli surveillance company were on a PR offensive to reassure human rights groups.<br \/>\nIn an exchange of public letters in 2019, they told Amnesty International and other activists that they would do \u201cwhatever is necessary\u201d to ensure NSO\u2019s weapons-grade software would only be used to fight crime and terrorism. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pegasus project has raised new concerns about the Israeli firm, which is a world leader in the niche surveillance market In 2019, when NSO Group was facing intense scrutiny, new investors in the Israeli surveillance company were on a PR offensive to reassure human rights groups. In an exchange of public letters in 2019, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/how-nso-became-the-company-whose-software-can-spy-on-the-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How NSO became the company whose software can spy on the world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2276,"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\/2275"}],"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=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}