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The Pegasus Hack–II: Secrecy for Snooping in Public Procurement?

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.

Agenda and Reading List: IT Rules 2021 and Intermediaries; Apr 23 #Ad

Rakesh Maheshwari, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology Key references The Information Technology Intermediaries Guidelines (Amendment), 2018 [download] IT Rules 2011 [read] Shreya Singhal Judgment: [read] Summary of the IT Rules Intermediaries And Social Media Platforms [read] Digital News Publishing [read] OTT Streaming Services [read] Key developments Unblocking of handles: IT Ministry notice to Twitter warns of consequences [Read] CEO Will Cathcart says WhatsApp hopes to find solution to traceability without breaking encryption [read] India’s FOSS community files plea in Kerala High Court against IT Rules, challenges traceability mandate [read] Opinion/Analysis Pieces The Case of the Online Intermediary by Chinmayi Arun [Read]

Chinese ops target India's energy infra

Chinese ops target India’s energy infra HT Correspondent, New Delhi,Mumbai © Provided by Hindustan Times In Maharashtra, however, state home minister Anil Deshmukh separately said on Monday the state police suspects a cyber attack to be the reason for the power cut in Mumbai. (Parveen Kumar/HT file photo) Chinese-government linked attackers possibly gained access to computer networks part of India’s power infrastructure, a US-based cybersecurity firm has said, citing technical clues that federal power ministry officials separately said had been on their radar, fuelling speculation that a blackout in Mumbai last year may have been the result of sabotage.

On cyber weapons and chimeras — by Gunjan Chawla and Vagisha Srivastava