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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 CARLOS DADA, et al., Case No. 3:22-cv-07513-JD

8 Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE MOTION TO DISMISS

v. 9

10 NSO GROUP TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 13 Plaintiffs are “journalists and others who write, produce, and publish El Faro, a digital 14 newspaper based in El Salvador” said to be “one of the foremost sources of independent news in 15 Central America.” Dkt. No. 31 ¶ 4. Defendants are NSO Group Technologies Limited and Q 16 Cyber Technologies Limited (together, NSO), which are incorporated and located in Israel. Id. 17 ¶¶ 32-33. This case is one of several in this District alleging that NSO supplies “Pegasus” and 18 other software products that allow hackers to “take full control of a target’s smartphone remotely 19 and surreptitiously,” and thereby obtain access to the target’s texts, calls, GPS location, stored 20 data, and other information. Id. ¶ 38. NSO is said to have “sold Pegasus to authoritarian and 21 rights-abusing governments” for use against “journalists, human rights activists,…