“A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday [July 8] ruled that a district court erred when it dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Salvadoran investigative journalists against a spyware manufacturer whose product was allegedly used against them.
In March 2024, a California federal judge threw out a 2022 lawsuit filed by Carlos Dada and other journalists at El Faro, saying their case was ‘entirely foreign’ and they therefore had no standing to sue in the U.S.
El Faro was investigating the Salvadoran government when Israel-based NSO Group’s powerful Pegasus spyware was installed on phones belonging to Dada and 21 other El Faro staffers, according to digital forensic researchers who pinpointed the timing of the attacks and diagnosed the infections.”
