Jerusalem: Israel has established a commission to review the allegations that the controversial Pegasus NSO telephone supervision software is misused, said the Head of the Foreign Committee and Parliamentary Defense Thursday.
“The formation of defense referred to the review commission consisting of a number of groups,” said Member of the RAM Ben Barak Parliament to the Army Radio.
“When they complete their reviews, we will demand to see the results and assess whether we need to correct,” Former Deputy Head of the Spy Mossad Israeli Agency added.
Pegasus has been involved in the possibility of supervision of the mass of journalists, human rights defenders and 14 heads of state.
Their telephone number is among around 50,000 potential supervisory targets on leaking leaking on the Group of Amnesty International and Paris-based illegal stories.
NSO said the leak was “not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus.” Executive Chief NSO Shalev Hulio told the Army radio Thursday that he would be “very happy if there was an investigation, so we could clear our name”.
He also accused his effort “to smear all the Israeli cyber industry”.
NSO said it exported to 45 countries, with the approval of the Israeli government.
Hulio said the company could not disclose the details of the contract because of “confidentiality issues,” but said he would offer full transparency to any government that was looking for more details.
“Let the state entity occur – any official from any country – and I will be ready to open everything to them, for them to enter, to dig from top to bottom,” he said.
Ben Barak said the priority of Israel was “to review the whole thing this gives a license.” Pegasus has “exposed a lot of terror cells”, he said, but “if it is misused or sold to an irresponsible body, this is something we need to check.” Paris-based journalists indefinitely on Wednesday called for the moratorium on cyber surveillance software.
Pegasus can hack a cellphone without a user who knows, allows clients to read each message, track the user’s location and utilize the camera and cellphone microphone.