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Comment: Fate of Khashoggi widow's suit against NSO lies on where data was accessed by Pegasus spyware

By Mike Swift ( May 24, 2024, 22:16 GMT | Comment) -- Apple, Meta Platforms and Salvadoran journalists have all sued NSO Group Technologies over its Pegasus spyware that can turn a smartphone into a sophisticated surveillance device, but the NSO complaint that's currently deepest in the US court system was filed by the widow of assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In Hanan Khashoggi’s case, the outcome may turn on how the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit interprets two conflicting sets of alleged facts about when Pegasus was implanted on her phones, whether the software transmitted private data while she was in the US, and whether NSO is responsible for that.Apple, Meta Platforms and a group of Salvadoran journalists have all invested years of litigation against NSO Group Technologies on claims that the Israeli company’s Pegasus spyware violated US computer security and privacy laws by turning smartphones into highly sophisticated surveillance devices....

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