owned by Meta Platforms In its battle against Israeli commercial spyware provider NSO Group, WhatsApp achieved a significant legal win when a federal judge in the U.S. state of California decided in favor of the messaging behemoth for using a security flaw to distribute Pegasus.
In May 2019, United States District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton stated that “the limited evidentiary record before the court does show that defendants’ Pegasus code was sent through plaintiffs’ California-based servers 43 times during the relevant time period.”
NSO Group was further criticized in the decision for consistently failing to deliver pertinent information and disobeying court orders pertaining to such discovery. The business was further criticized for limiting access to Israeli nationals who were in Israel and for failing to produce the Pegasus source code read more about U.S. Judge Rules Against NSO Group in WhatsApp Pegasus Spyware Case.
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