Today Access Now called on The Blackstone Group to halt its pending deal with NSO Group, a purveyor of surveillance technology that has been used by governments to spy on activists around the world... Access Now is circulating a public petition calling for signatures, which states: “We urge the Blackstone Group to immediately drop plans to invest in NSO Group and its surveillance technology and to publicly commit to a plan to ensure its current and future investments will not facilitate human rights violations.”...