The other major story this week stemmed from some investigations into the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Amnesty International led a group of investigators and journalists in looking into the software, including a mysterious list of 50,000 phone numbers supposedly targeted by regimes around the world. NSO Group has denied many of the accusations, in particular the targeting list, but the reporting has nonetheless stirred up a massive debate about online privacy and security from government surveillance.
Here is some of the original investigative work, published by Amnesty: