A successful Pegasus infection surreptitiously gives intruders access to everything a person stores and does on their phone, including real-time communications.
On Monday, the government filed a three-page affidavit offering to set up an expert committee to look into all aspects of the controversy and “dispel any wrong narrative spread by certain vested interests”.
Mentioning the petition before a bench headed by CJI NV Ramana, senior advocate Kapil Sibal said, “This matter has huge ramifications on civil liberties as it involves surveillance of opposition leaders, journalists and activists. Its creating waves not just in India but abroad as well”
An unidentified employee of NSO told America’s National Public Radio on Thursday that the government clients were blocked as the company investigates the possible misuse of its technology