Whatsapp Snooping and Data Privacy

What is Snooping?

The action of trying to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs.

India has everything at risk, oh now I realized even people's privacy is at stake!

The recent news about whatsapp snooping is a serious issue to worry about!

What actually happened?

1400 people from almost 20 different countries were put under surveillance and their phones were accessible to some other third party. It was found that Israelis firm NSO's spyware software Pegasus was used in infecting the phones through Whatsapp! Almost all the people who were snooped are : activists,journalists,lawyers,government officials.

Hacking phones, snatching away people's privacy has become as easy as buying lollipops from a shop.

How Pegasus spyware works?

1. A missed call is sent to the subject on whatsapp

2. Pegasus is installed in the phone, there is not just access to your whatsapp but also all your emails,contacts,camera and what not!

3. Hence your phones are compromised

Whatsapp claims it has end to end encryption then why is there this data security lapse?

On the other side of the story, the Israeli nso is completely against the accusations made against them as NSO claims that it provides "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime" and it doesn't do anything to snatch away people's privacy.

Our IT minister Ravi shanker stated privacy of Indians is very important to him and whatsapp has to respond to Indian government soon.

Is it just a political statement or is something going to really happen so that we can really trust our own phone's ?

With the upcoming technologies like Artificial Intelligence anything can happen

Putting passwords, not trusting people these things do you think really safeguard your phones? No! Something should be done, a better technology should start.

We are becoming victims without even knowing it? How sad is that ?

Now the discussion shouldn't be about who should be blamed for what happened instead try to make sure atleast from now things become safer.

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