Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is demanding for the FBI to answer questions about its policy about hacking Americans and its use of a controversial surveillance system.
“The American people have a right to know the scale of the FBI’s hacking activities and the rules that govern the use of this controversial surveillance technique,” Wyden said in a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Chris Wray.
The FBI obtained Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group, The New York Times reported earlier this year. The agency said without giving a reason that it declined to deploy NSO’s hacking tool that can be used to completely control a person’s phone without their knowledge.
Wyden asked the FBI how many operations it has carried out using hacking and how many were authorized by the courts.
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