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By installing spying apps on smartphones without the knowledge and consent of the user, they can monitor internet searches, location history, text messages, photos, videos, voice calls, and more. However, spyware is not only used by government authorities and cyber criminals. NSO Group insists that its products are primarily used by law enforcement for legitimate crime-fighting purposes-and only to collect data from the mobile devices of specific individuals suspected to be involved in serious crime. Many countries worldwide, including Germany, are allegedly using the Pegasus spyware for their own surveillance operations.

It helps them keep tabs on critics and anyone potentially seeking to undermine them. For obvious reasons, some authoritarian regimes love spyware. Using this powerful software, several states worldwide have extensively spied on and monitored the Android and iOS devices of journalists, politicians, opposition activists, human rights activists, and their lawyers.

Spyware was thrust back into the spotlight after the discovery of Pegasus, the advanced mobile spyware from the Israeli NSO Group.