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April 29, 2022 02:42 pm
Original Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/04/29/1442242/private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&ut
Private Equity Executive Sought To Undermine NSO Critics, Data Suggests
Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab. From a report: When Downing Street was recently named as the suspected victim of a phone hack by the United Arab Emirates using the Israeli-made spyware, Pegasus, few were surprised at who was behind the discovery. The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has for years been a thorn in the side of the NSO Group, deciphering the company's sophisticated hacking tools and -- crucially -- identifying victims of the spyware. Ron Deibert, the longtime director of the Canadian research group, is one of the world's leading experts on identifying digital threats against civil society. John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, is among a relatively small group of experts globally who can identify which iPhones and Android devices have been infected with Pegasus, and which government clients are likely to have been responsible. It is unsurprising, then, that the pair were an intense focus at Novalpina, the London-based private equity group which took over NSO Group in 2019, and quickly sought to stem its reputation for enabling repressive governments to commit widespread human rights abuses. Using UK data protection laws, Deibert and Scott-Railton last year sought the personal data held on them by Novalpina. The results of their so-called subject access requests, recently shared with the Guardian, contain snippets of hundreds of emails and attachments that included their names. The released data, combined with information from other sources, sheds light on an apparent attempt by Novalpina partner Stephen Peel to gather information on and undermine Citizen Lab. In one case, he even reached out to George Soros, whose foundation is an important Citizen Lab donor, and complained about the researchers.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/04/29/1442242/private-equity-executive-sought-to-undermine-nso-critics-data-suggests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&ut
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