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Snooping row: Parliamentary standing committee on IT summons WhatsApp

The committee would likely discuss the issue of citizens' snooping by exploiting vulnerability in WhatsApp through Israel-based company NSO Group's Pegasus software

Illustration: Ajay Kumar Mohanty
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Illustration: Ajay Kumar Mohanty

Neha Alawadhi New Delhi
The Parliamentary Standing Committee for information technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has summoned WhatsApp executives for a hearing on December 11. 

A communication from the Lok Sabha Secretariat says the WhatsApp executives will be asked to present their views on “the subject 'Citizens’ data security and privacy”. Business Standard learns that senior executives of the India team of WhatsApp have been asked to attend.  Apart from WhatsApp, the committee has summoned cybersecurity experts, representatives of the ministry of communications (department of telecommunications), ministry of home affairs, and chief secretary of NCT of Delhi.

The committee would likely discuss the issue
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