{"id":3627,"date":"2021-11-09T18:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/fresh-scrutiny-for-mexico-after-arrest-of-suspect-in-nso-spyware-case\/"},"modified":"2021-11-09T18:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:41:13","slug":"fresh-scrutiny-for-mexico-after-arrest-of-suspect-in-nso-spyware-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/fresh-scrutiny-for-mexico-after-arrest-of-suspect-in-nso-spyware-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh scrutiny for Mexico after arrest of suspect in NSO spyware case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman allegedly used surveillance tool to spy on journalist, raising questions about authorities\u2019 links to Israeli company <\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/19\/fifty-people-close-mexico-president-amlo-among-potential-targets-nso-clients\">use of spyware made by NSO Group<\/a> is facing new scrutiny following the arrest of a businessman on allegations that he used the surveillance tool to spy on a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the businessman \u2013 who has not formally been named by Mexican prosecutors \u2013 comes months after a consortium of media outlets, including the Guardian, published a series of reports detailing how the phone numbers of thousands of Mexicans, including 50 people linked to the country\u2019s current president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador\">Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador<\/a>, appeared on a leaked list of numbers selected by government clients of the Israeli spyware company for possible surveillance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/mexico-arrest-businessman-nso-israeli-company-spyware\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/378de1aee6c2930301bd8fa724507268ea069e3f\/0_263_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4a3bb52f1489ef99245e51dde7511ae3\" title=\"Fresh scrutiny for Mexico after arrest of suspect in NSO spyware case\" \/>Businessman allegedly used surveillance tool to spy on journalist, raising questions about authorities\u2019 links to Israeli company<br \/>\nMexico\u2019s use of spyware made by NSO Group is facing new scrutiny following the arrest of a businessman on allegations that he used the surveillance tool to spy on a journalist.<br \/>\nThe arrest of the businessman \u2013 who has not formally been named by Mexican prosecutors \u2013 comes months after a consortium of media outlets, including the Guardian, published a series of reports detailing how the phone numbers of thousands of Mexicans, including 50 people linked to the country\u2019s current president, Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, appeared on a leaked list of numbers selected by government clients of the Israeli spyware company for possible surveillance. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman allegedly used surveillance tool to spy on journalist, raising questions about authorities\u2019 links to Israeli company Mexico\u2019s use of spyware made by NSO Group is facing new scrutiny following the arrest of a businessman on allegations that he used the surveillance tool to spy on a journalist. The arrest of the businessman \u2013 who &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/09\/fresh-scrutiny-for-mexico-after-arrest-of-suspect-in-nso-spyware-case\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fresh scrutiny for Mexico after arrest of suspect in NSO spyware case<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3628,"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\/3627"}],"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=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}