WhatsApp users ask government to explain ties with Israeli firm NSO in privacy breach case

A group of Indians including journalists and lawyers whose phones were hacked via Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging platform asked the government on Friday to make public its ties with the Israeli firm accused of deploying the spyware. The group of 19 affected Indian users said in an open letter that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government must explain whether it had mounted the surveillance on them.

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