Researchers built a platform to track the proliferation of a surveillance tool made by NSO Group. It is partially designed to be used as evidence in legal cases.
For years, activists, journalists and opposition figures around the world have decried the Israeli firm NSO Group for allegedly enabling the hacking of their phones. A new platform developed by Forensic Architecture, a research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London that specializes in open-source investigations of human rights issues, aims to up the pressure on the firm.