Suzanne Smalley reports:
Microsoft, Google and several other major tech firms on Monday filed a legal brief supporting an El Salvadoran journalist whose staff was targeted with powerful mobile spyware, arguing he should be allowed to sue the software developer in U.S. court.
In March, a California federal judge dismissed the lawsuit brought by Carios Dada and other plaintiffs located overseas against Israeli spyware maker NSO Group, saying they had no standing to sue in the United States because the case was “entirely foreign.”
The amicus brief argues that Google, Microsoft and other U.S. technology companies supporting the plaintiffs have worked closely with policymakers to enhance cybersecurity and collectively spend billions annually to bolster it, partially by working to monitor and disrupt spyware.
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