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Using Pegasus for security not wrong, says SC
The New Indian Express Villupuram
|April 30, 2025
The government possessing spyware for security purposes is not wrong, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.
However, allegations of it being used against private individuals can be looked at, it added.
"What's wrong if a country is using spyware? To have spyware is not wrong... against whom you are using it is the question. You can't sacrifice the security of the nation," a bench of justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said.
This story is from the April 30, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Villupuram.
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