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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hacking India’s Democracy – From Monitoring Metadata to Spying Real Time -CP Geevan

Hacking India’s Democracy – From Monitoring Metadata to Spying Real Time -CP Geevan

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published Published on Jul 26, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 27, 2021

-KafilaOnline Blog

On June 18 (Sunday evening in India), freedom-loving people across the world were shocked by the revelations of how a highly sophisticated and expensive digital technology, named Pegasus, a spyware sold by Israeli company NSO Group, has been systematically abused for years to spy on journalists, human rights defenders, academics, businesspeople, lawyers, doctors, union leaders, diplomats, politicians and even several heads of states. Regimes in several countries continue to criminally deploy such technologies to suppress democratic rights, curtail human rights, and organise surveillance on a massive scale. Such technologies are military grade weapons and are recognised to be precisely that. It is developed and sold by the NSO Group, a private company supported by Israel. As per NSO, they sell licences only to agencies authorised by a national government and approved by the Israeli government. Although it is being referred to as a software or malware, the spying system consists of an elaborate set of arrangements including a secure supporting backend maintained by the NSO Group.

The investigation, code-named Pegasus-Project, is the result of a massively collaborative effort of independent media houses like The Guardian, independent journalists, Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based non-profit media organisation, Amnesty International, academics in the field of cyber security and highly professional firms specialising in tracking digital crime. Other media houses like the Washington Post have also now joined the effort to defend democracy from the abuse of surveillance technologies. Perhaps, more may join the effort. The Pegasus Project includes more than 80 reporters from 17 media organizations in 11 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories with the technical support of Amnesty International’s Security Lab. The research carried out by the Citizen Lab of University of Toronto has also helped. The project managed to obtain more than 50,000 phone numbers selected as surveillance using Pegasus, actual or potential, from an unprecedented data leak. The investigators sifted through these records of phone numbers, which enabled them to take a peek behind the curtain of this surveillance weapon safeguarded by the state of Israel. An investigation like this had not been possible ever before.

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KafilaOnline Blog, 26 July, 2021, https://kafila.online/2021/07/26/hacking-indias-democracy-from-monitoring-metadata-to-spying-real-time-c-p-geevan/?fbclid=IwAR03wS_2uWsYkuTCXfvtc1KC3KyaLqtbjE0UsyRa32lOnJ6n2eVvO7cm9-I


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