"No Proposal For Banning NSO Group": Government In Parliament
NDTV
Earlier this month the US placed the NSO Group on a trade blacklist, saying they sold spyware to foreign governments that used it to target officials, journalists and others.
The government has "no proposal for banning any 'NSO Group'" and has no information on whether or not the United States has blacklisted the Israeli firm that developed the Pegasus spyware, the junior IT Minister told Parliament today in response to a question from two Samajwadi Party MPs.
The Samajwadi Party MPs - Vishambhar Prasad Nishad and Sukhram Singh Yadav - also asked the government for reasons the NSO Group and Candiru (another Israeli firm operating in the cyber-surveillance space) had not been banned in India.
To the latter question, however, the government did not provide an answer.
Earlier this month the US did, in fact, place the NSO Group and Candiru on a trade blacklist, saying they sold spyware to foreign governments that used it to target officials, journalists and others.
