Hacking phones: The Tax Authority also used information from spyware

January 20, 2022   

The Tax Authority received access to information extracted from the police's spyware for tax investigations. 7 million American children who were vaccinated are not wrong: We got vaccinated and you should get vaccinated too According to a report in 'Kan News', a former senior official in the enforcement system who was involved in the use of the software said that "the authority used information from the spyware to incriminate criminal organizations." The cyber unit that is responsible for using spyware for the police - SIGINT, actually serves as a contractor for many investigative authorities in Israel, which use information extracted from them. In addition to the Tax Authority, the MPI, the Antitrust Authority, and the Securities Authority have also received access to information from the software. According to the same senior official, over the years, wiretapping products have been produced from spyware for these investigative bodies, mainly in cases involving criminal organizations. The Tax Authority told 'Kan News': The Tax Authority is defined by law as an investigative authority and is not authorized to conduct wiretaps, but only to use them. When the need arises in cases handled by the authority to go on a wiretap position, this is done accompanied by a charging officer from the Israel Police. These wiretaps that the police conduct for the authority are secret wiretaps of conversations between suspects in criminal offenses using a telephone. The Tax Authority did not initiate or receive secret wiretap orders for the purpose of extracting information from a cell phone using software. It was also published in 'Kan News' this evening that the police are promoting a law that will expand the powers of penetration into cell phones, using spyware such as 'Pegasus'. Currently, the law allows the police to listen in or spy on a suspect using this software only in the present. However, police sources claim that the "new search law" being promoted by the Ministry of Justice will allow them to expand the search powers to include correspondence made in the past.