Recently, the Israeli government had also visited the NSO Group's office even as the company continues to deny the revelations brought forth by the Pegasus Project reports. Israel-based NSO Group whose spyware Pegasus has reportedly been used to (potentially) snoop on hundreds of Indians, has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its technology as it conducts an internal investigation into the spyware's possible misuse, an NPR.org report said. Why it matters? Since NSO Group has specifically stated that they only sell their products such as Pegasus to vetted governments and agencies, questions have been raised of the Indian government ever since it came to the fore that several Indians, including many who may have/have been critical of the ruling party, were surveilled. They include Congress politician Rahul Gandhi, election strategist Prashant Kishor, former Election Commission member Ashok Lavasa and others. An anonymous source in the NSO Group was quoted by NPR.org as saying, "There is an investigation into some clients. Some of those clients have been temporarily suspended." NPR.org said the source in the company spoke on the condition of anonymity because company policy, reportedly, stated that NSO "will no longer be responding to media inquiries on this matter and it will not play along with the vicious and slanderous campaign." The report also said that the company employee would not name or 'quantify' the government agencies or their countries that were suspended from using its spyware. Nevertheless, MediaNama reached out to Daniel Estrin, the author of…
