
Facing the consequences: Access Now welcomes legal action against NSO Group
Access Now welcomes a lawsuit filed against NSO Group for facilitating unlawful surveillance of French-Palestinian human rights defender, Salah Hammour.…
Access Now welcomes a lawsuit filed against NSO Group for facilitating unlawful surveillance of French-Palestinian human rights defender, Salah Hammour.…
Access Now calls on venture capital firm Integrity Partners & Associates, LLC and investment bank Moelis & Company to stop the NSO Group acquisition.…
Leo Schwartz, Rest of World
Civil society’s push to hold NSO Group accountable for its Pegasus spyware is working. Here’s what the Biden administration can do next.…
Alberto R. Aguiar, Business Insider
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the use of NSO’s Pegasus spyware against six Palestinian human rights defenders.…
Access Now applauds the U.S. government for blocklisting NSO Group, Candiru, and other companies complicit in human rights abuses around the world.…
“From Pearl to Pegasus: Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits” explores how activists were targeted in Bahrain.…
Access Now is appalled at NSO Group’s alleged involvement in human rights violations, and call on states to intervene on the surveillance company’s power.…
Frank Andrews, Middle East Eye
Access Now and civil society partners join the WhatsApp v. NSO Group lawsuit by filing an amicus brief that discloses stories of those who survived the Pegasus spyware attack. The amici call for NSO to be held accountable for targeting civil society around the world.…
Five human rights defenders who suffered from the NSO Group WhatsApp hack have stepped forward to tell their stories — sharing how their governments used NSO Group’s products to surveil them, and consequences they have faced as a result.…
Of 1,400 victims of targeted attacks through WhatsApp, more than 100 were members of civil society.…
Evidence shows that civil society remains under attack through the use of NSO Group spyware. We call for corporate accountability and global action to stop these attacks. …
When sophisticated surveillance systems are sold and used effectively without constraint, it puts civil society, free expression, and our democracies at risk.…
Date: May 29, 2019 – Author: Sean Lyngaas – Publication: CyberScoop
Access Now wrote to the governments of Bulgaria and Cyprus to request investigations into export licenses reportedly issued to NSO Group, which sells surveillance products linked to human rights violations.…
The new owners of NSO Group continue to fail to demonstrate how they plan to prevent use of their surveillance products to harm human rights.…
A spyware scandal may go all the way to the top echelons of U.S. power.…
Blackstone has dropped plans to invest in NSO Group. Now its current financial backers should step up to respect human rights. …
Surveillance and tracking complement and facilitate threats, torture, and murder. We need more action, not words, to stop the human rights violations.…