Topic: Pegasus report

The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking a special investigation team (SIT) probe into the Union government’s role in the Pegasus snooping row.

The Supreme Court will be hearing a clutch of petitions seeking a special probe into the Pegasus snoopgate involving allegations that opposition politicians, journalists, activists and others were targets of the Israeli spyware.

In this piece, Internet Freedom Foundation, a New Delhi based NGO that conducts advocacy on digital rights and liberties, have conducted a line-by-line verification of the Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw's statement on the Pegasus revelations, made in the Lok Sabha on July 19, 2021.

The Opposition intensified its noisy protests in Lok Sabha on Wednesday over farm laws, Pegasus snooping and other issues with some members even hurling papers and torn placards in the Parliament, but the Narendra Modi government went ahead with its legislative agenda and three bills were passed amid the din.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the Rajya Sabha John Brittas has moved the Supreme Court demanding a court-monitored probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into the reports of snooping of activists, journalists and politicians using the Israeli spyware Pegasus.

Days after media reported that Congress former chief Rahul Gandhi's phone was on a list of potential targets for surveillance using the Israeli spyware Pegasus, Gandhi said that not only all his phones are tapped but his security personnel had been asked to report to their seniors everything he said.