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Cyber Espionage: Microphone and Access To Record Phone Calls
Cyber Espionage: Microphone and Access To Record Phone Calls
a) After the disclosure of in-depth investigation by journalists and human rights groups
b) Indian government targeted foreign journalists, leaders, activists and opposition leaders
a) Mass Surveillance
b) Targeted Surveillance
3- Mass Surveillance
4- Targeted Surveillance
Uses Malicious ways to infect the devices or accounts of specific people to gain access to
information, data, contacts, messages, emails, photos, etc. on the target’s phone or computer.
5- Pegasus Virus is downloaded on target's device and gives attacker access to their camera,
microphone and access to record phone calls
7- Companies that develop and sell surveillance technologies must be held accountable
a) Need of licensing terms that enable companies and governments that abuse this technology
for purpose
b) Dire need to implement export controls on this technology
c) subject it to human rights due diligence
8- These technology should be prohibited until international regulations
9- Why it is illegal?
b) induces fear in activists and journalists and citizens of being observed by agencies
e) use to blackmail official and other ( e.g. Justice Qazi faez Isa case)
b) Principles of International Human rights law to supervise, sale, purchase and use of these