# Access Now urges the Ninth Circuit to protect encryption from NSO’s spyware

- Type: News
- Source: Access Now
- Date: 2026-05-21
- Original: https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/access-now-urges-the-ninth-circuit-to-protect-encryption-from-nsos-spyware/
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/53465
- Topics: Encryption, Security, Marketing

## Summary

Yesterday, Access Now and ten other civil society organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S.’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals calling to protect encryption from NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware and to keep the lower court’s permanent injunction forbidding NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp or its customers’ devices ever again.

## Full text

Yesterday, Access Now and ten other civil society organizations filed an amicus brief in the U.S.’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals calling to protect encryption from NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware and to keep the lower court’s permanent injunction forbidding NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp or its customers’ devices ever again.

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