WOW: #NSOGroup petitioned the #SupremeCourt to request the Solicitor General weigh in on @WhatsApp's lawsuit against them.
@TheJusticeDept did! Urging the Supreme Court NOT to hear the case.
Massive blow to the mercenary spyware company that makes #Pegasus. 1/
h/t @davidakaye
@TheJusticeDept did! Urging the Supreme Court NOT to hear the case.
Massive blow to the mercenary spyware company that makes #Pegasus. 1/
h/t @davidakaye
2/ NSO had asserted that because foreign governments - which they refused to name- used their tech...they should be entitled to immunity.
@TheJusticeDept's view is categorical. Nope.
@TheJusticeDept's view is categorical. Nope.
3/ @TheJusticeDept's amicus brief notes NSO's placement on Entity List for facilitating the very type of bad things (Natsec threats, human rights abuses) that are the subject of the @WhatsApp lawsuit.
TLDR: NSO is the *very last* company that could be considered for immunity.
TLDR: NSO is the *very last* company that could be considered for immunity.
4/ NSO really splashed out around this case & the Entity Listing.
Armies of lobbyists. Rafts of lawyers.
It doesn't seem to be working.
Full @TheJusticeDept Amicus Brief here:
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/2…
Armies of lobbyists. Rafts of lawyers.
It doesn't seem to be working.
Full @TheJusticeDept Amicus Brief here:
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/2…
5/ Some light evening reading on NSO's "straw-grasping effort to benefit from a non existent form of immunity"👇
https://twitter.com/davidakaye/status/1594837118198710273
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