Israel eyes spyware export curbs; Macron, Merkel troubled by abuse reports
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NSO has rejected the reporting by the media partners as “full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories”.
An Israeli parliamentary panel may seek changes to defence export policy over reports that software sold by Israel’s NSO Group was used to spy on journalists, officials and rights activists in several countries, a senior lawmaker said on Thursday. Among suspected targets of is French President Emmanuel Macron, who convened his cabinet on Thursday over calls for investigations. Amid mounting EU concern, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin that spyware should be denied countries where there is no judicial oversight. “We certainly have to look anew at this whole subject of licences granted by DECA,” Ram Ben-Barak, head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, told Israel’s Army Radio,referring to the government-run Defence Export Controls Agency.More Related News
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