From French President Emmanuel Macron to ordinary whistleblowers, surveillance software Pegasus has been used to target thousands of people.Investigative journalists Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud tell the story and explain why no one is safe
technology
February 1, 2023
Whistleblower Edward Snowden Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy
Pegasus
Edward Snowden’s 2013 U.S. National Security Agency leaks sparked a global debate over state surveillance, but the scale of the story Edward Snowden told in the summer of 2021 is beyond his reach. I couldn’t even believe it.
The whistleblower gave French investigative journalists Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud a list of 50,000 phone numbers. These were those who were flagged for attacks by his package of cyber surveillance software called Pegasus.
Subsequent investigations Pegasus: The Story of …
