Police are using NSO software without a court order to break into the phones of non-criminal or suspicious civilians

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 by Ifi Reporter - Dan Bielski

Police are using NSO software without a court order to break into the phones of non-criminal or suspicious civilians, including the heads of the black flag protest, the Calcalist newspaper reported this morning.
The software is operated by members of the Special Operations Team (MM) in the police cyber division, Signet. NSO on Israeli numbers. "I intend to make sure that there is no rounding of corners on the subject of NSO," the minister wrote on Twitter.

Once investigated, there is no practice of wiretapping, or intrusion into devices, by the Israel Police without the approval of a judge.
At the same time I intend to make sure that there is no rounding of corners on the subject of NSO and that everything is checked and approved by a judge in Rachel your little house
According to a series of publications from recent years, this is a sophisticated hacking tool developed by NSO that can be implanted in a person's mobile phone, without his knowledge and without having taken an active action (e.g. clicking a link). The software takes over the device and allows you to extract any type of information from it, including text messages and emails, track everything that is done on it, operate a camera, microphone, location services and more.
The company has stated on several occasions that NSO is actively blocking the ability of Pegasus to track telephone numbers with the prefixes of Israel (972) and the United States (1). Even if he wanted to. According to company officials in the past, the decision to do so was made at the company's initiative.


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