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by throwaw10293847 1613 days ago
Comment from duplicate submission:

Some of the companies in the field, in contrast to NSO, do have ethics committees to filter out obviously bad clients. Once when guidelines were described to engineers a question was asked: Would Israel itself pass the ethics committee check?

The answer was "No. But..."

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You can argue about it's effectiveness, but NSO does have an ethics committee.
Could you source that anecdote?
I was working at one of the cybersecurity companies and "not being another NSO" was part of internal discussion.

I won't name the company and use temp account deliberately for this comment.