Amnesty International has lost a court battle against the iPhone spyware company NSO. The human rights organization wanted an Israeli court to block exports of spyware created by the company.
Amnesty had claimed that hackers spied on one of its staff using spyware tools produced by NSO …
Vice reports that the court rejected the claim, citing insufficient evidence.
Amnesty said that the ruling would enable the company to continue to assist human rights abusers to violate the privacy of their victims.
In 2018, as Motherboard reported at the time, Amnesty claimed to have found hackers spying on one of the organization’s researchers using NSO spyware. After the incident, the organization sued NSO in Israel in an attempt to block the export of its surveillance technology. A Tel Aviv District Court judge dismissed the suit alleging Amnesty did not present enough evidence, and said Israel’s Defence Ministry, which is tasked with overseeing the export of surveillance technologies, has the right safeguards in place to protect human rights
NSO claimed that the services it provided were ‘proportionate.’
NSO was first revealed to be an iPhone spyware company back in 2016.
Apple blocks exploits as they come to light, but is engaged in a constant whack-a-mole battle with organizations like NSO.
