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Note: These screenshots were captured in the WhatsApp app on iOS. Step 1: Open a WhatsApp conversation and tap the stickers icon at the far-right side ...

From there, you can tap an avatar sticker to send it in the conversation. Step 2: Tap the “Avatar” icon (the circular icon that appears to be smiling) at the bottom of the screen. [create an avatar](https://www.adweek.com/media/whatsapp-how-to-create-an-avatar/) to represent them in the messaging application, they can send stickers in conversations featuring their avatar.

WhatsApp allows users to create an avatar that can be used to represent them throughout the messaging application. Users can customize their avatar with ...

Note: After you delete your avatar, you’ll still have the option to create a new avatar from scratch in the future. Step 3: Tap “Delete Avatar.” Users can customize their avatar with different hairstyles, outfits and more.

The Supreme Court allowed Meta to pursue a lawsuit alleging that an Israeli company unlawfully accessed WhatsApp servers when installing spyware on devices.

The Biden administration, asked by the court in June to weigh in on the case, said in a brief that there was no need for the justices to hear it. The case will now move forward in the U.S. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S.

Court rejects NSO claim it could not be sued because it was acting as agent for unidentified foreign governments.

[blacklisted NSO](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/03/nso-group-pegasus-spyware-us-blacklist) and Israel’s Candiru, accusing them of providing spyware to governments that used it to “maliciously target” journalists, activists and others. [investigation published in 2021 by 17 media organisations](https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project), led by the Paris-based non-profit journalism group Forbidden Stories, found that the spyware had been used in attempted and successful hacks of smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists on a global scale. [has argued](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/08/nso-israeli-spyware-company-whatsapp-lawsuit-ruling) that it is immune to being sued because it was acting as an agent for unidentified foreign governments when it installed the Pegasus spyware. [target the inner circle of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-used-to-target-family-of-jamal-khashoggi-leaked-data-shows-saudis-pegasus) shortly before he was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Joe Biden’s administration had urged the justices to reject NSO’s appeal, noting that the US state department had never before recognised a private entity acting as an agent of a foreign state as being entitled to immunity. [US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/law/us-supreme-court) has let Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

WASHINGTON :The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the ...

Upholding that ruling in 2021, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. "We firmly believe that their operations violate U.S. President Joe Biden's administration had urged the justices to reject NSO's appeal, noting that the U.S. Advertisement The justices turned away NSO's appeal of a lower court's decision that the lawsuit could move forward. "NSO's spyware has enabled cyberattacks targeting human rights activists, journalists and government officials," Meta said.

The Supreme Court has rejected an Israeli spyware maker's bid to derail a high-profile lawsuit filed by the WhatsApp messaging service.

NSO also has been blacklisted by the U.S. “Today’s decision clears the path for lawsuits brought by the tech companies, as well as for suits brought by journalists and human rights advocates who have been victims of spyware attacks,” Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement. The Justice Department wrote that “NSO plainly is not entitled to immunity here.” WhatsApp says at least 100 of the users connected to its lawsuit were journalists, rights activists and civil society members. NSO’s flagship product, Pegasus, allows operators to covertly infiltrate a target’s mobile phone, gaining access to messages and contacts, the camera and microphone and location history. The request appeals a pair of earlier federal court rulings that rejected similar arguments by the Israeli company.

Spyware maker NSO argued it was immune from prosecution as it was acting on behalf of a foreign government.

Israeli firm NSO Group's spyware has been linked to state surveillance of human rights activists and dissidents.

The firm, which does not disclose its clients, has maintained that only law enforcement agencies can purchase the product and all sales are approved by Israel’s Ministry of Defense. It has said the technology is intended to help catch “terrorists”, paedophiles and criminals. “We firmly believe that their operations violate US law and they must be held to account for their unlawful operations.”

The US Supreme Court is staying out of a legal feud between spyware maker NSO Group and Meta Platforms Inc. over surveillance technology that allegedly ...

NSO says governments use its technology to investigate terrorism, child exploitation, and other serious crimes. The US Supreme Court is staying out of a legal feud between spyware maker NSO Group and The justices on Monday rejected consideration of a lawsuit that asks whether NSO’s work for foreign governments makes the company immune from legal action in the US.

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass cyberespionage of ...

"We are confident that the court will determine that the use of Pegasus by its customers was legal." [human rights activists](https://techxplore.com/tags/human+rights+activists/), journalists, and [government officials](https://techxplore.com/tags/government+officials/)," Woog said. The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass cyberespionage of journalists and human rights activists.

International, MNA | The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by NSO Group to block a WhatsApp lawsuit accusing the Israeli tech firm of allowing mass ...

NSO’s Pegasus software was described in court filings as enabling “law enforcement and intelligence agencies to remotely and covertly extract valuable intelligence from virtually any mobile device.” “We firmly believe that their operations violate US law and they must be held to account for their unlawful operations.” “We’re grateful to see the Supreme Court rejected NSO’s baseless petition,” said WhatsApp spokesperson Carl Woog.