New: Spyware maker NSO Group used real phone location data on thousands of unsuspecting people when it demoed its new COVID-19 contact-tracing system, dubbed Fleming, to governments and journalists, researchers say. That data was exposed earlier this year. techcrunch.com/2020/12/30/nso…
The Fleming demo had an unprotected back-end database, exposing the location data. Researchers at @ForensicArchi examined that data and concluded that it was not dummy data as NSO claimed, "but rather reflects the movement of actual individuals.
From May: techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/nso…
From May: techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/nso…
You can read (and watch) @ForensicArchi's full technical report here, including the maps, graphs, and visualizations which explain their findings (while preserving the anonymity of the individuals whose location data was fed into NSO’s Fleming demo.)
forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
The researchers said if the data is real, then NSO "violated the privacy" of 32,000 individuals across Rwanda, Israel, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (all said to have used NSO's spyware). NSO, predictably, denied the allegations. More:
techcrunch.com/2020/12/30/nso…
techcrunch.com/2020/12/30/nso…
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