Supreme Court dismisses spyware company NSO Group’s claim of immunity

The Supreme Court dismissed on Monday an attempt by the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group to claim immunity from legal challenges.

NSO Group filed a petition for a writ of certiorari last year, arguing that under common law it could not be hauled before a judge as it was merely an agent of the foreign governments to whom it sold its products.

The same claim of immunity had previously been dismissed twice by U.S. courts, first by a California district …

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