{"id":928884,"date":"2025-05-08T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=928884"},"modified":"2025-05-08T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T02:55:59","slug":"whatsapp-spyware-scandal-facebook-parent-meta-wins-168-million-in-damages-from-israeli-surveillance-firm-nso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/08\/whatsapp-spyware-scandal-facebook-parent-meta-wins-168-million-in-damages-from-israeli-surveillance-firm-nso\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp spyware scandal: Facebook parent Meta wins $168 million in damages from Israeli surveillance firm NSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms won a $168 million verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America\u2019s biggest social networking platform and the world\u2019s best known spyware company. <\/p>\n<p>Meta had already won a December ruling finding that NSO had unlawfully exploited a bug in its messaging service WhatsApp to plant spy software on its users\u2019 phones. On Tuesday, a jury in California ruled that NSO owed Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages \u2013 and $167.3 million in punitive damages, Meta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms won a $168 million verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said Tuesday, capping a six-year arm wrestling match between America\u2019s biggest social networking platform and the world\u2019s best known spyware company. Meta had already won a December ruling finding that NSO had unlawfully exploited a bug in its messaging service WhatsApp to plant spy software on its users\u2019 phones. On Tuesday, a jury in California ruled that NSO owed Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages \u2013 and $167.3 million in punitive damages, Meta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}