The Israeli spyware company called NSO Group and its Pegasus software are pretty well-known at this point. The powerful spyware has been sold to authoritarian governments around the world and used by those governments to snoop on political rivals, activists, lawyers and whoever else they targeted. Now allegations are coming out that Pegasus was also being used by Israeli police to spy illegally on Israeli citizens. Reporter Ariel Oseran in Tel Aviv explains the latest to host Marco Werman.
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