: Interview: ‘Facebook cannot arrest me. That’s why Pegasus is much more dangerous than Big Tech’ #IndiaNEWS Over the last few years, there has been a steady stream of major news stories involving

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Interview: ‘Facebook cannot arrest me. That’s why Pegasus is much more dangerous than Big Tech’ #IndiaNEWS
Over the last few years, there has been a steady stream of major news stories involving government surveillance or privacy concerns regarding Big Tech, from the Edward Snowden leaks to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. For some, the most recent Pegasus Project reports are neither surprising nor terribly concerning in their revelations of how governments have been using spyware developed by an Israel company to target journalists, activists and political rivals all over the world, including in India. Yet these stories are not the same. The manner in which Pegasus was potentially deployed in India, covering Opposition leaders, Election Commission officers and journalists in the run-up to the 2019 elections, threatens the pillars of India’s electoral democracy. Delhi lawyer Vrinda Bhandari has paid close attention to questions of privacy and digital rights and, as Of-Counsel to the Internet Freedom Foundation, is party to a challenge in the Supreme Court calling for reforming India’s surveillance framework.Scroll.in interviewed Bhandari over e-mail about Pegasus, what we understand about its legality and why it is different from Big Tech privacy concerns. Is Pegasus a big deal? Should citizens be worried? It’s a very big deal. This is not just a case of traditional surveillance or phone tracking. We’re talking about malware and spyware that can look at all the...Read more

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