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    WhatsApp spyware: UK firm promises new 'respect for human rights' following allegations

    Novalpina Capital to establish new rules at NSO Group following multiple allegations that technology was used to spy on dissidents and the media
    by Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Jon Swaine in New York Jun 18, 2019 3 minutes
    The Pegasus software was recently alleged to have infected phones through a glitch in the WhatsApp messaging software. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

    A controversial Israeli cyber weapons company has agreed to establish new internal rules on ways it will protect human rights activists and journalists following multiple allegations that its technology was used to spy on dissidents and the media.

    Its majority owner, Novalpina Capital, a UK private equity firm, has promised a “significant enhancement of respect for human rights” at NSO Group, whose Pegasus software was recently alleged to have infected phones through a glitch in the WhatsApp messaging software.

    The announcement was. Documents show Yana Peel, a human rights advocate, has a one-third stake in Novalpina Capital, which was founded by her husband Stephen Peel.

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