Antisocial network sought surveillance tech to boost its creepy Onavo Protect app, it is claimed
NSO Group – sued by Facebook for developing Pegasus spyware that targeted WhatsApp users – this week claimed Facebook tried to license the very same surveillance software to snoop on its own social-media addicts.
The Israeli spyware maker's CEO Shalev Hulio alleged in a statement [PDF] to a US federal district court that in 2017 he was approached by Facebook reps who wanted to use NSO's Pegasus technology in Facebook's controversial Onavo Protect app to track mobile users.
Pegasus is designed to, once installed on a device, harvest its text messages, gather information about its apps, eavesdrop on calls, track its location, and harvest passwords, among other things.
Onavo Protect, acquired by Facebook in 2013, was available for Android and ..
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