New Delhi: The government on Sundays firmly denied any unauthorized supervision said official institutions had an established protocol for interception, which included sanctions and supervision of high-ranking officials in the center and countries to state national reasons.
It is said that news reports on the use of pegasus software and charges on government supervision in certain people do not have a concrete base or truth.
“In the past, similar claims were made about the use of Pegasus on WhatsApp by India.
These reports also did not have a factual basis and categorically rejected by all parties, including WhatsApp in the Supreme Court of India,” said a statement of government reproducing its response to the media , Responding to the allegations that the software was used to target cellphones politicians, journalists, and officials, the Israeli-based NSO group said it only sold its products to the government examined.
He also said software was used for counter-terrorism supervision.
The NSO Group said, “There is a reason to believe that the record of thousands of telephone numbers studied by Pegasus Project Media Partners is not a list of targets from various governments, but part of a larger list of numbers may be used by the NSO Group.
Customers for other purposes”.
Rajendra Kumar, additional secretaries in IT services, said: “This news report, thus, also seems to be the same fishing expedition, based on suspicion and excessive to slander Indian democracy and institutions.” He said India is committed to protecting the privacy of its citizens and recent digital media guidelines and data protection laws in making, are steps in this direction.
“Every case of interception, monitoring, and decryption is approved by the competent authority I.E.
Secretary of the United States.
These strengths are also available for competent authorities in the state government according to the rules, 2009,” the official said.
Kumar said India was a strong democracy that “committed to ensuring the privacy rights to all its citizens as fundamental rights”.
He added that commitment to freedom of speech as fundamental rights was the foundation of the Indian democratic system.
The ministry said India had previously responded to RTI about the use of Pegasus, and emphasized that the answer was “sufficient enough to fight dangerous claims about alleged relations between the Indian and Pegasus governments”.
He said the accusations of government supervision in certain people did not have a concrete base or truth associated with him.
Not invalid surveillance: Government
