The Spy in Your Mobile

An unprecedented leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers selected for surveillance by the customers of the Israeli company NSO Group shows how this technology has been systematically abused for years. The Forbidden Stories consortium and Amnesty International had access to records of phone numbers from more than 50 countries selected by NSO clients since 2016. In July 2021, the scandal surrounding the Israeli surveillance software Pegasus broke out. An international media consortium coordinated by Forbidden Stories revealed a global spying system that had spiraled out of control and was being used by more than 65 countries to target the phones of thousands of journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, heads of state, and political opponents around the world. The Spy in Your Mobile traces the months leading up to the investigation’s disclosure and highlights the authoritarian excesses of states, as well as the violations of and repercussions,