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From Watergate to Pegasus: How surveillance methods have developed

  • Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)--DW (English)
  • published date: 2021-07-22 05:59:00 UTC

Surveillance methods used by governments and others have become more and more sophisticated — and cheaper and easier to implement as well.

About 50,000 phone numbers were possible targets for surveillance using Pegasus spyware, according to  an investigation by a group of media organizations. Clients of the Israeli cyber arms firm NSO G… [+5278 chars]