The mass surveillance using Pegasus, a military-grade spyware, abridges several fundamental rights Pegasus Spyware Row: Senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar have moved the Supreme Court for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over 142 potential “targets”, including journalists, lawyers, ministers, Opposition politicians, constitutional functionaries, and civil society activists, using military-grade Israeli spyware Pegasus. “Such mass surveillance using a military-grade spyware abridges several fundamental rights and appears to represent an attempt to infiltrate, attack, and destabilize independent institutions that act as critical pillars of our democratic set-up,” the petition said. It has also sought full disclosure from the government on whether it had authorized the snooping, which seems to be an attempt to muzzle free speech and to chill dissent. The government, the petition said, had still not given a straight ans...
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