A prominent senator has called for “aggressive oversight” into the sale of the NSO Group's hacking-and-spying tools to police forces in America.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) was reacting to Vice's discovery of a brochure by the US subsidiary of the controversial NSO Group, called Westbridge Technologies, that pitched its Pegasus technology, rebadged as Phantom, to a police force in San Diego, California. This is despite the NSO Group claiming in court filings two weeks ago that it had no US operations.
“Government hacking is among the most invasive forms of surveillance - tracking someone’s movements, turning on their webcam and microphone, or accessing photos and other sensitive data on a phone or computer,” Wyden said in a state ..
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