Facebook is being sued by employees of Israeli spyware firm, NSO Group, for blocking personal accounts by rachsandl
Photo by Carsten Rehder/picture alliance via Getty Images: Employees of Israeli spyware company NSO Group are suing Facebook for allegedly blocking their personal accounts and violating their privacy—the latest twist in an ongoing legal battle in which Facebook previously accused NSO Group of allegedly violating user privacy by hacking into messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.
The lawsuit, filed in a Tel Aviv court, also accuses Facebook of violating Israeli privacy law by improperly using personal information that Facebook collected in order to identify them as NSO Group employees . They allege in the lawsuit that their personal accounts were suspended without any prior warning and without cause, amounting to “collective punishment.”NSO Group in October for allegedly creating hacking tools that allowed clients to read the private WhatsApp communications of journalists, diplomats, senior government officials and dissidents .. In a statement, NSO Group said the lawsuit is an “independent action” taken by employees.
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