New Delhi: cornered by questions about media organizations around the abuse of Pegasus Spyware formed by Israel-based NSO groups to help the government track terrorists, sex and drug trafficking rings, the NSO Group has announced that it will “no longer respond to media questions “About how journalists, activists, political opponents are reduced by the technology of the living.
A series of explosive news articles revealed how spyware Pegasus NSO was used by government institutions in India to spy on activists, journalists and those who were critical of the government.
Not only in India, even French President’s smartphone Emmanuel Macron was allegedly targeted to supervise using Pegasus by Moroccan intelligence services.
The NSO Group calls all revelations with prohibited stories as “well-planned media campaigns”.
The company in his defense said, “This list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus.
The number in the list is not related to the NSO group.
Every claim that the name in the list is certainly related to the Pegasus target or the potential target of Pegasus is wrong and wrong.” The NSO Group claimed to work with Authorized government only.
It has 60 customers in 40 countries.
The company said that 51% of its users belonged to intelligence agencies, 38% of law enforcement agencies and 11% of the military.
In the latest transparency report, the NSO Group said that it did not operate Pegasus, it did not have visibility to its use, and did not collect information about customers.
“NSO is a technology company.
We do not operate the system, we also do not have access to our customer data, but they are obliged to give us this information with an investigation,” he said in a post on his website.
After saying that, the NSO Group said that it would “investigate the credible abuse of technology on technology” by its customers.
According to the company’s transparency report, Pegasus is not mass supervision technology.
“It only collects data from certain individual cellular devices, allegedly involved in serious crimes and terror,” said the company in transparency reports and responsibilities.
However, note that the NSO Group has “no visibility into its use” as “does not operate Pegasus”.
In other words, the company is contrary to itself because there is no control over how the government uses Pegasus after being bought.
And the latest report revealed that no potential Pegasus targets in India or globally have to do with terrorism, pedophilia, gender, and drug trafficking rings.