BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro on Wednesday requested the attorney general’s office investigate the purchase of Pegasus spy software for $11 million, which he said could have been used to spy on opposition politicians during the previous administration.
Spyware technology, including Pegasus – built by Israeli firm NSO – has been repeatedly found to have been used to hack into the phones of civil society, political opposition and journalists in the last decade.
(Reporting by Luis Jaime Acosta and Oliver Griffin; Writing by Oliver Griffin)
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