The Guardian and The Washington Post have alleged through a report that many governments of the world are spying on many big personalities including human rights activists, journalists, big lawyers through a special software named Pegasus, which includes India.
A tweet by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has created outcry in the country. Swamy has said in one of his tweets that the Washington Post and the London Guardian are about to publish a report which has information about the phone tapping of several ministers and journalists. It is being said that there can be many big revelations about the tapped phone calls of about 2,500 people. The world`s most powerful hacking software Pegasus is involved in this.
According to a leading news portal, The phones of 40 Indian leading journalists, major opposition leaders, two serving ministers, one constitutional authority, current and former defence heads and several businessmen have also been tapped using the software.
The Guardian and The Washington Post have alleged through a report that many governments of the world are spying on many big personalities including human rights activists, journalists, big lawyers through a special software named Pegasus, which includes India. The Indian government has denied these allegations.
According to the Guardian newspaper, this spying software has been sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO to the governments of different countries. According to the revelations of the Guardian newspaper, more than 50 thousand people are being spied on through this software.
The consortium`s analysis of the leaked data found at least 10 governments believed to be NSO customers who were entering numbers into a system. It includes data from countries like Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, India and the United Arab Emirates. The Guardian claims that this has been revealed after the investigation of 16 media organizations.
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