- The US Government has been confirmed as a paragon -customer
- Paragon was recently accused of targeting journalists of WhatsApp
- Paragon “prohibits explicit (s)” targeting journalists
Notorious Israeli Spyware Manufacturing Company Paragon Solutions has confirmed that the US government is a buyer of its products.
Talking to TechcrunchParagon’s performing President John Fleming said, “Paragon licenses his technology to a selected group of global democracies – mainly, the United States and its allies.”
The confirmation comes days after WhatsApp revealed that Paragon had tried to illegally install its spyware on the devices of up to 90 journalists and members of civil society through a zero-click implementation.
Paragon forbids to target journalists, do it anyway
Fleming’s statement continued and said Paragon, “requires all users to agree on terms and conditions that explicitly prohibit the illegal targeting of journalists and other civil society figures. We have a zero-tolerance policy against such targeting and end our relationship with any customer who violates our Terms of Service. “
Techcrunch Said Fleming did not respond to a number of other questions, such as the WHO Paragon considering an American ally, and the details of the Terms of Service on Targeting Journalists, among other targeted questions about the accusations of WhatsApp, and whose paragon is investigating allegations of abuse or had disconnected a contract on Due to violations.
Two of the journalists targeting the WhatsApp campaign have emerged. Italian journalist Francesco Cancellato, director of fanpage.it, who published undercover video footage of the youth wing of Italy’s reigning party, Fratelli d’Italia, making racist and anti-Semitic remarks and singing Nazi and pro-fascist beat in Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Libyan activist Husam El Gomati, based in Sweden, has criticized the efforts between the Italian and Libyan governments to prevent Libyan immigrants from crossing into Europe via the Mediterranean. Both Cancellato and Gomati confirmed that they had been targeted by paragon in the spyware attack.
Via Techcrunch
