Spyware maker Paragon terminates contract with Italian government: media reports

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Spyware maker Paragon terminates contract with Italian government: media reports - TechCrunch

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In a statement on Wednesday, the office of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni denied involvement with the spyware campaign revealed by WhatsApp.

On Tuesday, Paragon’s Fleming told TechCrunch that the company counted the U.S.government and its unspecified “allies” as customers.

On the same day, a Libyan activist who lives in Sweden, Husam El Gomati, and has been critical of the Italian and Libyan government’s dealings to stop immigrants from crossing the Mediterranean, said he received a notification from WhatsApp informing him that he had been targeted.