Impact of Pegasus on Civilian Targets and Journalists
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🛡️NSO was established with an ambition to make the world a safer place, but Pegasus has turned into a military weapon used against civilians.
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📰The need for journalists, reporters, and tech experts to uncover and expose the victims of this spyware scandal is crucial.
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🔍The potential revelation of NSO's customers and targets could be a game changer in the cyber surveillance industry.
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🕵️♂️Amnesty International's Security Lab played a crucial role in detecting traces of Pegasus on phones, changing the entire project.
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🇸🇦The murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an important dissident, sheds light on the dangerous consequences of surveillance and the abuse of power by authoritarian regimes.
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💻"The word is that you sold Pegasus to them and then they turned it around to get Kashoggi."
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🕵️♂️Investigative journalists like Carmen have been targeted with Pegasus spyware while uncovering important political scandals in Mexico.
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💣"It's a military weapon used against civilians."
Ethical and Privacy Concerns Surrounding Pegasus Spyware
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🌐"This technology, it's so far ahead of government regulation and even of public understanding of what's happening out there."
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🔍The extent of monitoring technology like Pegasus allows virtually everything to be possible, raising serious privacy concerns.
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🕵️"It is a military weapon used against civilians."
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🕵️♂️Each time you look at how a client of NSO Group used the technology, it tells you something about that government.
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🔒Princess Latifa's message about being held captive in a converted jail villa in Dubai raises serious human rights concerns.
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🌐"We can't let NSO and the governments that abuse their system, get away with what they've done. Because if we do, and if nothing happens, and people are not brought to justice, people are not put in jail and people are not taken to court, the next company and the next company, and the next company, wherever they may be, will do exactly the same."
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📱Going through all the numbers on the list was a huge job. More than 15,000 of the numbers were in Mexico. And one of those numbers belonged to a journalist who was murdered just weeks after he was put on the list.
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🔍An explosive investigation from the "Washington Post," and a consortium of media partners.
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🕵️♂️The Biden administration blacklisted NSO Group and criticized the Israeli government for allowing the widespread use of Pegasus, emphasizing the international implications of the spyware scandal.
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🕵️"The only solution to stopping spyware is to catch the perpetrators and hold them accountable for their actions."
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