David Kaye (University of California, Irvine School of Law) has posted The Spyware State and the Prospects for Accountability (Global Governance, Vol. 27, No.4, 2021, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Public attention has increasingly turned to the global spyware industry, with particular focus on Israel's NSO Group and its signature malware, Pegasus. Through extraordinary reporting by human rights researchers and journalists, we have come to understand how Pegasus is used to target journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, and others exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of expression, privacy, association, and more. This short paper lays out some policy directions mainly at the global level but also the domestic and the corporate, concluding with the question: is spyware, gi