The dispute between WhatsApp and the Israeli surveillance company NSO is widening: Now Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has also joined the legal battle.
The journalists’ association, along with seven other international civil society organizations, filed a brief on Wednesday in the competent US federal court in San Francisco.
With “detailed human rights arguments” WhatsApp is supposed to be supported in the legal dispute, reported RSF on Thursday. According to the journalists’ organization, this legal dispute affects questions of human and international law of fundamental importance.
The process between the monitoring company and the Facebook messenger service WhatsApp has been running since October last year. WhatsApp accuses NSO of illegally researching 1,400 WhatsApp users, including many journalists and human rights activists, as the Klein Report has already reported.
The brief that has now been submitted was signed, along with Reporters Without Borders, by the non-governmental organizations Access Now, Amnesty International, Committee to Protect Journalists, Internet Freedom Foundation, Paradigm Initiative, Privacy International, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales.
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