BREAKING | #PegasusProject The telephone numbers of more than 60 women – homemakers, lawyers and school teachers, journalists, scientists, civil servants and even friends of politicians – figure in the leaked database of probable surveillance.
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Minal Gadling, the 48-year-old homemaker’s immediate concern was the extent to which her privacy could have been compromised.
“My phone is an integral part of me. I carry it everywhere, even to my bedroom,” she said. | @sukanyashantha
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“My phone is an integral part of me. I carry it everywhere, even to my bedroom,” she said. | @sukanyashantha
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@sukanyashantha Her husband, Surendra Gadling, was arrested in June 2018 and later arraigned in the ongoing Bhima Koregaon case.
The leaked database indicated that Gadling’s associate lawyer, Nihalsing Rathod, was marked as a probable target in early 2018.
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The leaked database indicated that Gadling’s associate lawyer, Nihalsing Rathod, was marked as a probable target in early 2018.
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@sukanyashantha He had gotten married only a few months before that.
His wife, Shalini, said that even before she got acquainted with her partner’s work, she was dragged into this “madness”.
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His wife, Shalini, said that even before she got acquainted with her partner’s work, she was dragged into this “madness”.
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@sukanyashantha Tribal rights activist Soni Sori, also on the list of potential victims, had said more than her own life, she fears for the many victims and families of those killed extra-judicially or sexually violated by security forces in the Bastar region.
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@sukanyashantha “In a conflict zone, where everyone is looked at with suspicion, such surveillance can have a deadly impact. My work involves meeting a lot of victims on the ground; some even end up living with me for months."
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@sukanyashantha "I can’t even imagine what such surveillance could do to victims of sexual assault,” Sori said.
Most women interviewed on the list felt that the manner in which Pegasus was potentially used against them breached their personal space in unacceptable ways.
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Most women interviewed on the list felt that the manner in which Pegasus was potentially used against them breached their personal space in unacceptable ways.
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@sukanyashantha Of them, at least one was a minor when her number was selected for surveillance.
“This is actually a bodily violation,” Vrinda Bhandari, a Delhi-based lawyer (whose number is not on the list) told The Wire.
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“This is actually a bodily violation,” Vrinda Bhandari, a Delhi-based lawyer (whose number is not on the list) told The Wire.
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@sukanyashantha “From dating apps to a monthly period tracker to online banking, everything has slowly made way into our phones. Now imagine if all of this is accessible to the attacker,” Mishi Choudhary. technology lawyer, observed.
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