Pegasus & Turning India Into Surveillance State | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (22)

Revelations by Pegasus Project have created a storm across the globe. A list of about 50,000 phone numbers from across the globe are accessed by a Paris based non-profit journalism portal. The list of potential and intended targets identified by the clients of NSO Group, the Israeli company that sells military grade spyware Pegasus. In this Episode, Dr Parakala speaks to you about what these revelations mean for our democracy, our union government’s response to them, and flags the danger that we possibly are witnessing the process of India inexorably descending into being a surveillance state.