LECTURE 22

Question 1

THE GIST OF THE PEGASUS ARTICLE-

Answer 1

1) Pegasus had high- profile targets
2) Big Fish/ Small Fish/ Dark Mode

Question 2

WHAT IS THE INVERSION OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY PRINCIPLE

Answer 2

1) Stripping citizens clean of their data and information in multiple ways
2) Refusing to declare how the government utilizes the citizen data it ruthlessly mops up

Question 3

CATEGORIES OF BIG PLAYERS

Answer 3

1) Political Players
2) Independent Institutions
3) Journalists/NGO and other civil society

Question 4

POLITICAL PLAYERS

Answer 4

1) Opposition members have been the victims of state-sponsored hacking.
2) Rahul Gandhi’s 2 phones were hacked
3) Prashant Kishore’s phone was also hacked.
4) Destroying the fabric of democracy
5) Ruling party asymmetric amounts of information.

Question 5

INDEPENDENT INSTITUTIONS

Answer 5

1) potential CEC- the one who found certain statements of Modi to violate the election code of conduct. The journalist who recorded the objection and a prominent member of the election watchdog.
2) Ranjan Gogoi- sexual harassment case- the phones of 11 family members of the complainant were hacked into. He went on to become a Rajya Sabha MP.

Question 6

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS/ ACADEMICS/ NGO’s

Answer 6

1) Maati Montjib( Morocco)
2) Khadija Ismailova( Azerbaijan)

Question 7

DARK MODE

Answer 7

1) Bhima Koregaon case- 15 people
2) Stan Swamy
3) Rona Wilson- planted evidence