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NSO tells US appeals court it isn't responsible for use of Pegasus spyware, countering Khashoggi appeal

( May 22, 2024, 23:07 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: NSO Group Technologies told the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that the widow of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi should have sued the governments of the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia over their alleged assassination of her husband, not the Israeli tech company that built the Pegaus smartphone spyware they had allegedly licensed.  NSO said all it did "was design Pegasus in Israel and then allegedly license Pegasus to the UAE. NSO had no knowledge that the UAE planned to misuse Pegasus to monitor Plaintiff’s phones, as Plaintiff alleges. And once NSO licenses Pegasus to a foreign government, it plays no role in that government’s uses of Pegasus. Just as a wiretap manufacturer does not itself listen to drug dealers’ phone calls, and Lockheed Martin does not itself launch missiles, NSO itself does not install Pegasus on anyone’s phone or access anyone’s communications," said the company, which also faces litigation filed by Apple and Meta Platforms over Pegasus. See attached document....

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