: Pegasus: UN human rights experts call for temporary suspension on sale of surveillance technology #IndiaNEWS Human rights experts with the United Nations on Thursday urged countries to temporarily

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Pegasus: UN human rights experts call for temporary suspension on sale of surveillance technology #IndiaNEWS
Human rights experts with the United Nations on Thursday urged countries to temporarily suspend the sale and transfer of surveillance technology across the world. This comes amid allegations that Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used to monitor politicians, journalists and activists around the world, including India. “It is highly dangerous and irresponsible to allow the surveillance technology and trade sector to operate as a human rights-free zone,� the experts said in a statement. They added that “such practices violate the rights to freedom of expression, privacy and liberty�. The experts said it also endangers lives, hurts press freedom and undermines democracy.The experts said a global moratorium should be in place till international regulations were adopted to ensure that human rights would be safeguarded. “International human rights law requires all States to adopt robust domestic legal safeguards to protect individuals from unlawful surveillance, invasion of their privacy or threats to their freedom of expression, assembly and association,� they added. The alleged misuse of the Pegasus spyware was revealed in July when Paris-based media nonprofit Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International accessed a database featuring more than 50,000 phone numbers “concentrated in countries known to engage in surveillance of their citizens�.They shared the list with Indian news website The Wire and 16 other...Read more

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