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.
NCP's Supriya Sule said, "the parties have urged the President to direct the government to discuss Pegasus issue and farm laws in Parliament." These parties want that the President should direct the government to take up these issues for discussion.
"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.
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.
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.
The consortium's analysis of the leaked data identified at least 10 governments, including India, believed to be NSO customers for a hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group
"The Home Ministry had allowed 10 intelligence and investigating agencies and the Delhi Police to intercept, monitor and decrypt "any information" generated, transmitted, received or stored in "any computer".
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday accused the Congress party of spreading ill-information regarding the authorisation granted to 10 investigating agencies to intercept and monitor information in any computer source.
Internet and mobile phones, smart and otherwise, may have made communications and information access to information instant but also leave…
Internet and mobile phones, smart and otherwise, may have made communications and information access to information instant but also leave…
