Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says
Paragon Solutions, the Israeli-American spyware company, has reportedly failed to respond to Italian authorities investigating spyware attacks on journalists and activists, despite earlier commitments to cooperate with the inquiry.
Why this matters: Paragon made a public promise to help figure out what happened. Now it is not responding to investigators. That gap between what a spyware company says and what it does is exactly the accountability problem with this industry. The people targeted were journalists and activists — people whose safety depends on knowing who surveilled them and why. If authorities cannot get basic answers from the vendor, those people get nothing. This is what happens when powerful surveillance tools are sold with no real obligation to answer for how they get used.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity
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