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At Politico, Maggie Miller w<\/a>rites<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Israeli spyware company NSO Group was ordered by a U.S. federal court on Tuesday to pay WhatsApp and its parent company Meta almost $170 million in damages after its cyber tools were used to hack around 1,400 WhatsApp accounts.<\/p>\n

NSO Group has become the poster child in recent years for the mostly underground spyware market, used increasingly by governments to surveil dissidents<\/a>, journalists and politicians<\/a>. The ruling, the latest step in a process that began in 2019, is a major win for privacy advocates and those pushing back against NSO Group\u2019s controversial Pegasus software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In September 2024, Apple dropped its suit against NSO Group<\/a>, citing concerns that its threat-intelligence protections disclosed in the case could be compromised<\/a>, that a legal win would have limited effect given the spyware industry\u2019s expansion<\/a>, that various governments were working together to counter the misuse of spyware<\/a>, and that discovery might ultimately fail (for background on the original case, see \u201cApple Lawsuit Goes After Spyware Firm NSO Group<\/a>,\u201d 24 November 2021). As much as Apple\u2019s decision leaves a bad taste in the mouth, it may have been the better part of valor.<\/p>\n

Despite these concerns, WhatsApp\u2019s parent Meta stayed the course and now stands to collect around $167 million in punitive damages and $440,000 in compensatory damages. NSO Group will, of course, appeal. Even if Meta prevails, collecting from an Israeli company that has enjoyed political protection<\/a> from the Israeli government and may be on shaky financial footing<\/a> presents significant challenges. Meta isn\u2019t wrong when it says<\/a> it has \u201ca long road ahead to collect awarded damages.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s puzzling is how Meta seems to tie the success of that collection to its following statement: \u201cUltimately, we would like to make a donation to digital rights organizations that are working to defend people against such attacks.\u201d It\u2019s unfortunate that Meta\u2019s meager $16.6 billion in Q1 2025 profit leaves it unable to support digital rights organizations unless it first collects from a financially imperiled Israeli spyware vendor.<\/p>\n

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