Situational Awareness: It was revealed this week that the U.S. Government signed a contract, in November of 2021, to utilize NSO Group's geolocation tool that can "covertly track mobile phones around the world without the phone user’s knowledge or consent." 5 days prior to the contract, the Biden Administration signed an executive order banning U.S. cooperation with NSO Group (an Israeli firm). The FBI secretly made the deal under the front name of Cleopatra Holdings which it had also used in 2018 (installing the software in 2019) to purchase the firm's hacking tool, Pegasus, which was used to "conduct targeted, invasive surveillance in ways that were unavailable before the advent of the tools." The 2021 contract violated the Administration's own Commerce Department blacklisting.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/politics/nso-contract-us-spy.html