Just last month WhatsApp sued an Israeli surveillance company, the NSO Group, in a US court. The NSO Group has rejected the allegation. The University of Toronto’s CitzenLab has found that the Pegasus spyware is used in 45 countries. On the surface, it seems that constraining the global spyware industry could be impossible. Many say that constraining exports of such software would be folly, since Chinese surveillance companies would step in where Western companies bow out.
