Israeli police under fire over reported use of Pegasus spyware to hack Israelis

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Without citing sources, the Calcalist financial daily said police have possessed the Pegasus spyware made by Israel's NSO Group - which isCalcalist said the police used it against targets including an

Without citing sources, the Calcalist financial daily said police have possessed the Pegasus spyware made by Israel's NSO Group - which isCalcalist said the police used it against targets including anti-government protest leaders, sometimes without the required court warrants.Pegasus has been abused by some foreign client governments to spy on human rights activists, journalists and politicians.

All such monitoring activity, he said in a statement,"is carried out according to law... for example, in the case of covert listening, a request is filed with a court, which examines the matter". On Israel's Channel 12 TV news, legislator Meirav Ben Ari said the parliamentary public security committee she chairs would convene as early as next week to question police about the Calcalist report.

 

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