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Amid ‘snooping’ allegations, Govt clarifies: ‘Sanchar Saathi App optional, can be uninstalled’

Earlier, in a press release issued on Monday, the Centre said that in order to safeguard citizens from buying non-genuine handsets, enable easy reporting of suspected misuse of telecom resources and to increase effectiveness of the Sanchar Saathi initiative, the DoT is mandating manufacturers and importers of mobile handsets that are intended for use in India to ensure that the Sanchar Saathi mobile application is pre-installed on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India.

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Cong accuses HP govt of snooping on MLAs, demand strict action

Raising the issue on the second day of ongoing monsoon session of state assembly under point of order, Agnihotri said he had intercepted a message of a Police Official in which he had allegedly asked all PSOs deputed with MLAs to share their locations on daily basis.

Who funded Pegasus snooping? asks Raut, compares it with Hiroshima bombing

"Was so much money spent? Who paid for it? The NSO says it sells its software only to governments. If it is so, which government in India purchased the software? Rs 300 crore were spent for spying on 300 people in India. Does our country have the capacity to spend so much money on spying?" Raut asked.

Pegasus snoop files contain contacts of prominent Indian activists

Without conducting digital forensics on the phones of these activists, it is impossible to establish whether their phones were hacked or infected but their appearance on the list suggests that they were persons of interest to an unidentified client of the NSO Group that was focused on India.

Pegasus spyware may have led to toppling of K’taka govt. in 2019

Pegasus spyware may have led to toppling of K’taka govt. in 2019

In its review of the leaked data, The Wire found that two phone numbers belonging to Satish, the personal secretary of then CM Kumaraswamy, were selected for potential targeting in mid-2019, at a time when the Congress-JD(S) government was struggling to win back the rebels.

By SNS

20 July, 2021 8 mins read
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