Watch | Pegasus Spyware: Who All Were Snooped on and Why?

Last week WhatsApp contacted two dozen academics, lawyers, Dalit activists and journalists in India, alerting them that their phones were under the supervision for a period of two weeks until May 2019.

Last week WhatsApp contacted at least two dozen academics, lawyers, Dalit activists and journalists in India, alerting them that their phones were under the supervision of a state-of-the-art Israeli software for a period of two weeks until May 2019. What does this mean? Who all were snooped on and why? The Wire‘s Siddharth Varadarajan breaks it down.

 

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Author: Siddharth Varadarajan

Siddharth Varadarajan is a Founding Editor of The Wire. He was earlier the Editor of The Hindu and is a recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award and the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year. He taught Economics at New York University and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, besides working at the Times of India.