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Supreme Court clears way for WhatsApp case against NSO Group, opening spyware firm to more lawsuits

The Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from NSO Group, the Israeli spyware maker, to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the firm exploited the WhatsApp platform in 2019 to spy on 1,400 users. The decision upholds a previous California federal court ruling that rejected NSO Group’s arguments that it qualified for foreign sovereign immunity because it had been acting on behalf of a foreign government to investigate terrorist activity at...