spy agencies to “decisively act against counterintelligence threats posed by foreign commercial spyware,” according to the public version of its latest bill authorizing intelligence activities. “As long as that remains as a possibility for problematic actors, they’re going to get support from investors.” company or even doing business with an American police department is the golden price for many in the spyware industry,” he said. But the FBI has acknowledged buying a license for Pegasus for what it said was “product testing and evaluation only.” While spyware companies make huge profits in the Middle East and Europe, it is American business and investment that “legitimizes what they’re doing,” said John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at Citizen Lab, which has long studied how the programs work.
The Biden administration last year imposed export limits on NSO Group and three other firms. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have long been in the market themselves for ways to hack into phones. “And that may be just enough to interfere in our elections, just enough to end our democracy.” are immune from having their most private deliberations watched,” Himes said.
“Nobody, not Mike Pence, not Nancy Pelosi, not Kevin McCarthy. officials and many lawmakers in both parties are concerned about foreign interference in future elections and the prospect of Americans trying to overturn a lawful vote by force. Jim Himes, D-Conn., suggested that off-the-shelf spyware felt “like a very serious threat to our democracy and to democracies around the world.” Himes questioned whether spyware could be deployed from another country against American officials and he criticized companies that invest in it.Īmong the investors in a private equity firm that held majority ownership of NSO Group were the Oregon state employee pension fund and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation. But there are several documented reports of American officials and citizens having their data captured by Pegasus. country code unless used by an American agency. NSO Group says its software can’t be activated against phone numbers with a U.S. Fealty to Trump defines Republican Senate primary in Arizona
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