US judge skeptical journalists' suit over NSO spyware belongs in California
By Mike Swift ( November 20, 2025, 23:11 GMT | Insight) -- A federal judge in San Francisco who dismissed litigation against NSO Group Technologies last year, only to have that decision reversed by a federal appeals court, said at a hearing Thursday that he continues to doubt that the case should be heard by a court in California.A federal judge was skeptical Thursday that NSO Group Technologies should face hacking claims in California because it routed its spyware through Apple’s systems to target the iPhones of journalists in El Salvador....
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