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NSO’s Spyware Abuse Exposed Years Ago 

DC bigwigs signed up as advisers anyway

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Jeff Stein
Jul 21, 2021
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Abuse of the spyware firm NSO Group’s cell phone surveillance technology was exposed as long as five years ago, but the Israeli-based firm was still able to enlist influential officials from both Republican and Democratic administrations and prestigious D.C. law firms as lobbyists and advisers, a SpyTalk review has found.

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