Officials, however, state that they were unaware since work was awarded to a contractor who used software from a blacklisted company.
During the blacklisting, the US government vowed not to allow the "proliferation of digital tools used for repression". As it now stands, an FBI contractor, Riva Networks, signed a deal for new software with NSO within a week of the White House making this policy change.Per the FBI's investigation, the agency contracted Riva Networks to help track suspected drug smugglers and fugitives in Mexico.
The FBI has now stated that it did not access a device through the tool, nor did any data make its way back from the tool received by the FBI, as claimed by Riva Networks to the agency. It is not that Riva Networks is a new contractor and hoodwinked the FBI on this one occasion. The company has also been contracted by the Defense Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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