WhatsApp's counsel told the Supreme Court on Monday that it has got nothing to do with Pegasus.This happened before a bench led by the Chief Justice of India which is hearing a batch of petitions seeking a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team or a judicial probe into the reports of snooping of activists, journalists, politicians and constitutional authorities using the...
WhatsApp's counsel told the Supreme Court on Monday that it has got nothing to do with Pegasus.
This happened before a bench led by the Chief Justice of India which is hearing a batch of petitions seeking a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team or a judicial probe into the reports of snooping of activists, journalists, politicians and constitutional authorities using the Pegasus spyware.'
WhatsApp has been made as a respondent in one of the petitions. When the bench asked about the stand of WhatsApp, Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing the messenger platform, said "I have got nothing to do with Pegasus".
WhatsApp had filed a suit in a court in California(USA) in 2019 against NSO Technologies, the Israeli company which developed the Pegasus spyware, alleging that the spyware was planted into the phones of several WhatsApp users. WhatsApp sought a restraint order against NSO and pay damages for allegedly violating the data privacy and interfering with the contract between WhatsApp and its users.
Seeking to know if the Union Government wants to file an additional affidavit on using the Pegasus spyware, the Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of a batch of PILs seeking probe into the snooping controversy till tomorrow.
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