NSO owner tells Amnesty it will prevent abuse of spyware linked to WhatsApp breach


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  • Thursday, 16 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: The WhatsApp messaging application is seen on a phone screen August 3, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/File Photo

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - NSO Group's owner said it will do whatever necessary to ensure the Israeli firm's spyware does not undermine human rights, after Amnesty International sought to revoke the export licence for NSO, which has been linked to a WhatsApp breach.

While it did not comment on specific attacks, NSO said in a statement following a breach of WhatsApp's messaging app on Tuesday that it would investigate any "credible allegations of misuse" of its technology which "is solely operated by intelligence and law enforcement agencies".

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