‘Conspiracy, Revenge, Sensational’: How the Modi Govt Evaded Accountability on Pegasus Row
New Delhi: A year has passed since Pegasus Snooping Row surprised the world. Human rights, journalists, lawyer, politicians, and others in 10 countries are illegally placed under supervision through military class spyware developed by NSO based in Israel. Although NSO claims to have sold spyware only to "the government being examined", the government mostly strives to only take tokenistic action or fully avoid accountability.
The Indian government, in this case, may have done the worst among democratic countries. Narendra Modi's government maintains silence over this problem or gives a panic statement to the opposition to fend off the attention of the seriousness of the problem, making the Supreme Court to immediately intervene.
Even when the findings of the Global Investigation of the Peg...