{"id":155028,"date":"2023-01-10T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/top-us-court-backs-whatsapp-suit-over-pegasus-spyware"},"modified":"2023-01-10T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T06:22:55","slug":"top-us-court-backs-whatsapp-suit-over-pegasus-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/top-us-court-backs-whatsapp-suit-over-pegasus-spyware","title":{"rendered":"Top US court backs WhatsApp suit over Pegasus spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-us-court-backs-whatsapp-suit-over-pegasus-spyware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass cyberespionage of journalists and human rights activists.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court denied NSO\u2019s plea for legal immunity and ruled that the case, which targets the company\u2019s Pegasus software, can continue in a California <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/federal+court\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">federal court<\/a>, a court filing showed.<\/p>\n<p>Pegasus gives its government customers\u2014which have allegedly included Mexico, Hungary, Morocco and India\u2014near-complete access to a target\u2019s device, including their personal data, photos, messages and location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass cyberespionage of journalists and human rights activists. The Supreme Court denied NSO\u2019s plea for legal immunity and ruled that the case, which targets the company\u2019s Pegasus software, can continue in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}