But if connected with each other, and the Pegasus spyware running in the background, they present a picture of India’s descent into a surveillance state. The probability that the second coming of Pegasus into our political discourse will not be very different from its first appears very real, if this too is treated as a separate and isolated event. It foregrounds the collusion between government and weapons grade surveillance tech that has no intermediary functions to confuse us. Editorial | Spy in hand: On Pegasus spyware issueAs important as the questions that the Government forcefully articulates is its remorseless stonewalling of the most important question repeatedly asked of it. It does not tell us in unequivocal terms whether it has or has not purchased the Pegasus spyware.

Source: The Hindu July 25, 2021 18:33 UTC