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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Staff and agencies in Jerusalem

Israeli police find ‘legally debatable’ use of spyware by investigators

Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.
Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Newspaper reports of surveillance have caused outrage in Israel. Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP

Israel’s national police force has found evidence pointing to improper use of spyware by its own investigators to snoop on Israeli citizens’ phones.

The announcement on Tuesday came two weeks after an Israeli newspaper reported a string of allegations that the police had used the NSO Group’s Pegasus software to surveil protesters, politicians and criminal suspects without authorisation from a judge.

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