{"id":46545,"date":"2022-05-08T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/indias-ongoing-outrage-over-pegasus-malware-tells-a-bigger-story-about-privacy-law-problems\/"},"modified":"2022-05-08T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T21:03:08","slug":"indias-ongoing-outrage-over-pegasus-malware-tells-a-bigger-story-about-privacy-law-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/indias-ongoing-outrage-over-pegasus-malware-tells-a-bigger-story-about-privacy-law-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"India’s ongoing outrage over Pegasus malware tells a bigger story about privacy law problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analysis<\/span> NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware-for-governments keeps returning to the headlines thanks to revelations such as its use against Spain’s prime minister<\/a> and senior British officials<\/a>. But there’s one nation where outrage about Pegasus has been constant for nearly a year and shows little sign of abating: India.<\/p>\n

A quick recap: Pegasus was created by Israeli outfit NSO Group, which marketed<\/a> the product as “preventing crime and terror acts” and promised it would only sell the software to governments it had vetted, and for approved purposes like taking down terrorists or targeting criminals who abuse children.<\/p>\n

Those promises are important because Pegasus is very powerful: targets are fooled into a “zero click” install of the software, after which their smartphones are an open book.<\/p>\n