{"id":248998,"date":"2026-01-21T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248998\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:44:10","slug":"israel-police-used-unapproved-spyware-for-years-to-collect-data-illegally-watchdog-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248998\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Police Used Unapproved Spyware for Years to Collect Data Illegally, Watchdog Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x1wty727 x1717udv xb3r6kr xeh89do x1hyvwdk xg01cxk x10l6tqk xuxw1ft xp5j34i xjm9jq1 x1jyxor1 xj3b58b x1y7amh xdj266r x1i1rx1s\" id=\"article-breadcrumbs-header\">Current section<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\" data-testid=\"breadcrumb-link\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x1mjqqkp x186li6p xo9jp16 xhhvhw0 xzv9wj1 x1sv1lhw x1913kr3 xhacrq1 x10yyv3n xpiheen x1qh5rs article-subtitle\" data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">The report, commissioned in the wake of the Pegasus scandal, found that police bypassed required legal and prosecutorial approvals. State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman revealed unauthorized surveillance of crime victims, minors, public officials and protected professionals. While specific spyware isn&#8217;t named, Haaretz has learned that police contracted with at least four companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current section Israel News The report, commissioned in the wake of the Pegasus scandal, found that police bypassed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70089,1155,85,46,78062,70087,1158,63807,837,43,11416],"class_list":{"0":"post-248998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-attorney-general-of-israel","9":"tag-human-rights","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-crime","13":"tag-israel-intelligence","14":"tag-israel-police","15":"tag-israeli-judiciary","16":"tag-itamar-ben-gvir","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nso-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}