Name: EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company
Brand: eff.org
SKU: eff-org-382
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company

preview

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF filed a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of against notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. WhatsApp discovered last year that NSO Group had breached its systems and enabled NSO Group’s government clients to hack into the mobile phones of approximately in April and May 2019. A federal judge allowed the case to earlier this year and NSO Group appealed.NSO Group sells its “Pegasus” spyware, which enables surreptitious digital surveillance of mobile devices, exclusively to government agencies across the globe. The company is arguing that it should therefore be granted “foreign sovereign immunity,” a longstanding legal doctrine that says that foreign governments should generally have immunity from suit in U.S. courts for reasons that focus on preserving stability in international relations, also called “.”EFF supports that foreign sovereign immunity is inappropriate for private corporations, and submitted our brief to further argue that no corporation, whether foreign or American, should be granted immunity for contracting with foreign governments, especially when those governments use a company’s powerful surveillance technology to violate human rights.We explained that surreptitious surveillance tools not only invade privacy and chill freedom of speech and association, they can also facilitate —from unlawful arrest to summary execution.EFF’s brief provided examples of how NSO Group, via the WhatsApp hack, helped its client governments target members of civil society, including and a . We also highlighted other examples of NSO Group’s complicity in human rights abuses, including many perpetrated by the Mexican government against .Corporate complicity in human rights abuses is a , and the Ninth Circuit should not expand the ability of technology companies like NSO Group to avoid accountability for facilitating human rights abuses by foreign governments.Share ItIn a new round of talks this week to formulate a , EFF is calling for strictly limiting the scope of the convention’s international cooperation provisions and safeguards to ensure that states respect human rights when responding to legal assistance requests.EFF is among a group of ...The scourge of stalkerware—malicious apps used by perpetrators of domestic violence to secretly spy on their victims—is not going unchallenged or unaddressed. are increasingly adding stalkerware to the list of apps their products detect on devices; victim help people figure out whether their devices are...Even in the face of strong public protest over a set of proposed revisions to criminal laws that infringe Indonesians’ free expression rights, the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights last month that threatens to further...EFF, Article 19, Fundación Karisma, and Privacy International, represented by Berkeley Law’s , urged the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to rule that Colombia’s existing legal framework regulating intelligence activities, and the unlawful and arbitrary surveillance of members of the Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single, global network that is truly open, fosters competition, respects privacy and inclusion, and protects human rights and fundamental...Update: On 16 June, following the approval by the Permanent Representatives Committee, the EU Parliament’s Internal Market Committee overwhelmingly the deal on the EU’s Digital Services Act. EFF helped to ensure that the final language steered clear of intrusive filter obligations. The DSA is expected to...First came tracking devices like Tiles and AirTags, marketed as clever, button-sized Bluetooth-enabled gizmos that can find your lost backpack. Then, after bad actors started using the devices to stalk or follow people, came scanning apps to help victims find out whether those same gizmos were tracking them.Such is the...Last week, Russian citizens began receiving instructions to either download a government-approved web browser, according to instructions issued by their government’s Ministry of Digital Development and Communications. On the one hand, these changes may be necessary for Russians to access...Imagine being detained by armed agents whenever you returned from traveling outside the country. That’s what life became like for Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, who was placed on a terrorist watch-list after she made a documentary critical of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Poitras was detained close...December 22, 2021H.E. Ms Faouzia Boumaiza MebarkiChairpersonAd Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal PurposesYour Excellency,We, the undersigned organizations and academics, work to protect and advance human rights, online and offline. Efforts to address cybercrime are of concern...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItEFF filed a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of against notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. WhatsApp discovered last year that NSO Group had breached its systems and enabled NSO Group’s government clients to hack into the mobile phones of approximately in April and May 2019. A federal judge allowed the case to earlier this year and NSO Group appealed.NSO Group sells its “Pegasus” spyware, which enables surreptitious digital surveillance of mobile devices, exclusively to...

public

Andrew Crocker

Sophia Cope

We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We defend your civil liberties in a digital world.

EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS