Human rights groups to ask Israeli court to revoke NSO Group's export license

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/nso-group-export-license-revoke-amnesty-international/

By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
May 12, 2019

Human rights advocates, including Amnesty International, plan to file a 
petition Tuesday in Israeli court to revoke mobile spyware vendor NSO Group’s 
export license, citing alleged abuses stemming from the vendor’s technology.

The legal action is an escalation in the confrontation between civil society 
groups and NSO Group, and comes after the company’s Pegasus surveillance 
software was reportedly used to target an Amnesty International researcher. 
Pegasus is so potent in its ability to compromise a mobile phone that it 
requires a license from the Israeli defense ministry to export.

Where NSO Group’s spyware has been reportedly been misused, “we’re going to 
keep looking for accountability on a case-by-case basis,” said Amnesty’s Danna 
Ingleton, who will submit an affidavit as part of the court filing. “In the 
meantime, there has to be enough evidence to revoke the export license.”

The legal motion, to be submitted in the District Court of Tel Aviv, is an 
attempt to halt the proliferation of the spying tools at its source, said 
Ingleton, who is deputy program manager of Amnesty’s technology program.

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