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The Pegasus Hack–II: Secrecy for Snooping in Public Procurement? By Gunjan Chawla The recent revelation of the Pegasus hacks has re-ignited public discourse on privacy, surveillance, and intelligence reform. As the proposed Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 makes wide exemptions to military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies for the collection and processing of citizens’ data, data protection laws in their current form will be limited in their potential to enforce meaningful procedural safeguards and oversight of State surveillance. Although these conversations are not new, we must continue to have them. At the same time, it is important not to miss the forest of State-run cyber-surveillance programmes for the sprawling branches of the Pegasus tree.  That the global cyber-surveillance industry thrives on State secrecy – is no secret.

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