Pegasus Affair

Shashi Tharoor Speaks to The Wire on Snooping on Rahul Gandhi | Pegasus | NSO | Spyware Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYef9RwlgXs 20/7/2021 Under the IT act 2000. Sec 43 and Sec 66 prohibits the insertion of malware in any computer, phone and mobile devices punishable upto three years improsement and five lakhs fine.   If govt also authorises any interception, it cannot be sustainable against people like journalists,except on the ground of national security. 

Pegasus Used In Karnataka To Collapse Our Government, Says Congress | The News  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-3MPnIfTWQ 20/7/2021  Phone numbers linked to the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government in Karnataka were possible targets for surveillance in 2019, at a time when the ruling coalition collapsed and the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP took power, the Wire has said in the latest revelations connected to Israeli spyware "Pegasus". The Wire report links the fall of the JDS-Congress government in July 2019 and the BJP's takeover to alleged snooping, though there is no evidence to establish whether phones were hacked.

Section 33:  https://indiankanoon.org/doc/39800/ 

Sec 66: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/326206/

Rahul Gandhi, Prashant Kishor, 2 Union Ministers Among Pegasus 'Targets'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXYOVhupuuA 

Pegasus Spyware: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, election strategist Prashant Kishor and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw are the big names revealed as potential targets of Israeli spyware 'Pegasus' in explosive revelations involving the alleged surveillance of phones.  Also Ashok Lavasa..

Pegasus Spying Explained | Why this is a big attack on Democracy | The Deshbhakt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwQUtSQWS3k

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: Decoding The Pegasus Scandal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyr31tZEWLk Jul 19, 2021 Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition leaders and journalists have been found on a database of targets for hacking that used Israeli spyware 'Pegasus' - only available to governments - reported

Sushant Singh says which stories he was working on during 2018. Chilling effect on sources for stories..

Pegasus Phone Hacks l Rahul Gandhi, Prashant Kishor and … full list of Targets l India’s Watergate ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoOpQP0hDWw The political impact of the phone-hacking scandal using Israeli Software Pegasus saw the opposition demanding the government explain how these hacks took place. The government has denied the charge. Recent reports reveal Rahul Gandhi as a potential spyware target around the 2019 polls and even after. Barkha Dutt discusses the issue with

Nikhil Pahwa (Medianama), https://youtube.com/embed/XoOpQP0hDWw?start=249&end=588   this kind of surveillance is anti-democratic. Need to move towards having strong surveillance reform with a great deal of accountability from Government, as there is no transparency even with parliamentarians. Also there is  no oversight except for govt being accountable to the government itself!

Nikhil Pahwa (Medianama) TEchnically there are multiple modes of delivery of the software, Once it is in, it can monitor all your communications and send this information to those who want that info.

Vijaita Singh (The Hindu). https://youtube.com/embed/XoOpQP0hDWw?start=590&end=762    

 https://youtube.com/embed/XoOpQP0hDWw?start=1489&end=1552 how can the govt say that there has been no unauthorised surveillance, if they have not not launched an inquiry, or investigation.. it perhaps means that you have authorised whatever intervention has taken place..  

Shivam Shankar Singh (Author), why cast aspersions . https://youtube.com/embed/XoOpQP0hDWw?start=1552&end=1816 The issue is that if this kind of surveillance is not by the government, then it is a major national security issue in which case  govt should be must more vigilant.  The surveillance of those who are considered close to the government, could be because the need to control, you may want information so you can have a vision of what they are doing, and therefore know how to control things.

Sandip Ghose (Commentator), https://youtube.com/embed/XoOpQP0hDWw?start=762&end=1226   Lots of assumptions: person should be held innocent till held guilty, so why blame the govt.  The tech is such that any other organisation can build it, besides NSO.. tech has advanced and access to it has increased.. therefore the issue of accountability..