Why US court’s fine on Israeli firm operating Pegasus is an indictment of the Indian Supreme Court
- A US court ruled in December 2024 that Israeli firm NSO Group illegally used Pegasus spyware to surveil more than 1,400 WhatsApp users globally, including about 100 in India.
- This ruling followed years of unresolved allegations in India about government use of Pegasus, amid the Indian Supreme Court's slow progress and lack of clear government responses.
- The NSO Group claims its software serves anti-terrorism and law enforcement, while critics highlight mass spying on journalists, activists, and politicians and warn of ethical and democratic risks.
- The US judge fined NSO $167.3 million for violating laws and WhatsApp’s terms, marking a precedent that spyware makers cannot evade liability for misuse by clients.
- Legal experts consider the US case a landmark for accountability in surveillance, contrasting it with India's judiciary, and expect it to influence ongoing Indian Supreme Court petitions and global norms.
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Between April and May 2019, during the government of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 456 people were spied on with the Pegasus spyware in Mexico, revealed the Network in Defense of Digital Rights (R3D) and Article 19.In a joint publication, the organizations detailed that these acts were recorded in judicial documents of the dispute between WhatsApp and the Israeli company NSO Group. As part of the evidence for the trial, WhatsApp …


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A new controversy surrounds the administration of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), after revealing that his government spyed on almost 500 people through the use of Pegasus software, a highly intrusive surveillance tool developed by the Israeli company NSO Group and that, according to the company itself, it can only be acquired by national states. The complaint was supported by the organization Article 19, specialized in the …
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