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..