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The House Committee, constituted by the Andhra Pradesh (AP) State Assembly, formed to probe if the Telugu Desam Party (@JaiTDP) govt. used Pegasus, submitted its report yesterday. However, the report makes no reference to the spyware. 1/6

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Per the Committee on ‘Unlawful Interception of Communications, Data Theft & Illegal Transmission, causing infringement of citizens rights during 2016-2019’, a large volume of data was transmitted from 18 State Data Centres (SDC) servers to external & unknown servers. 2/6
Head of the committee, MLA Bhumana Karunkar Reddy, said that there was no permissible presence or reason for such “unauthorised & improper transmission of large amounts of sensitive data”, shared between Nov 30, 2018 & Mar 31, 2019, from SDC servers to external IP addresses. 3/6
Let’s recap👇

March 17, 2022👉The West Bengal CM, Mamata Bannerjee (@MamataOfficial), alleged that the @JaiTDP government in AP had acquired the Pegasus spyware during its tenure, which lasted between 2014 & 2019. 4/6

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March 21, 2022👉The incumbent @YSRCParty govt expressed concerns about the illegal surveillance of their members. The State Assembly passed a resolution to set up a committee to investigate whether the TDP acquired & used Pegasus during its tenure. 5/6
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The larger question whether State governments in India procured & deployed Pegasus remain unanswered.

Read the post 👇 to know where various states & the respective state governments stood with regard to the Pegasus revelations made in July 2021. 6/6

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