Spyware scandal shakes trust in India’s democracy – again
Jul 26, 2021
3 minutes
When Indian journalist Rohini Singh learned that her mobile phone had been targeted by the cyberspying software Pegasus, she was upset by the apparent breach of her personal privacy. But she was even angrier about the threat she believes the hacking scandal poses to Indian democracy.
“In a democracy there is a free media … asking questions isn’t treated as an attack on the nation,” says Ms. Singh, a journalist working with The Wire, a prominent Indian news website. “A paranoid, authoritarian state spies on journalists, not a strong, confident democracy.”
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