NEW DELHI, July 26 -- Massive protests inside and outside Parliament and serious debates on the Pegasus spyware surveillance issue have become national headlines. The issue has serious overtones as the spyware was used to snoop on senior political leaders, journalists, bureaucrats, rights activists, lawyers and so on in several countries including India. Hundreds of phone numbers of Indians appeared on the list that included Congress leader Rahul Gandhi; Ashok Lavasa, former Election Commissioner who was considered an obstacle to the ruling party; and M. Hari Menon, the local head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Web portal, "thewire.in" recently broke the story on Pegasus claiming that the Government is using the spyware to snoop...