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NSO Group faces skepticism over claim of immunity from US lawsuits

By Dave Perera ( April 12, 2021, 22:41 GMT | Insight) -- Israeli firm NSO Group wants the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to declare that its spyware business is immune from lawsuits in the US because its product is marketed exclusively to governments. Facebook, which sued after the firm allegedly took advantage of a WhatsApp bug, told judges today that NSO is just another for-profit company. “Shouldn’t we have some sort of a signal from the State Department, from the executive branch?” asked one appeals court judge during oral argument.Attorneys for an Israeli maker of software associated with government surveillance of private citizens encountered skepticism in US court today when it argued that it's protected by legal doctrine shielding foreign governments from lawsuits....

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