More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to sanction four cyber-surveillance firms for 'enabling human rights abuses' by 'selling powerful surveillance technology to authoritarian governments.'
Washington More than a dozen Democratic lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to sanction four cyber surveillance firms for"enabling human rights abuses" by"selling powerful surveillance technology to authoritarian governments."
The letter, led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of California, asks the Treasury Department to sanction Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group, Emirati cybersecurity firm DarkMatter and European surveillance firms Nexa Technologies and Trovicor -- as well as the firms' top executives.
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