India bypasses own rules to buy Israeli phone-hacking tech
According to reporting by Al Jazeera International, India's expansive surveillance capabilities extend beyond cloning phones to accessing cloud-based data of tech giants.
International wire reporting from the Al Jazeera International confirms significant developments in United States. Global observers and diplomatic missions are monitoring strategic and macroeconomic ramifications.
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According to reporting by Al Jazeera International, India's expansive surveillance capabilities extend beyond cloning phones to accessing cloud-based data of tech giants.
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India’s expansive surveillance capabilities extend far beyond just cloning phones to accessing cloud-based data from social media platforms like Instagram and Tinder.
New Delhi, India – India has exempted an Israeli phone-hacking company from New Delhi’s own rules, allowing it to sell phone-extraction products and surveillance technology to government agencies and sparking concerns and criticism from rights groups and activists.
An investigation by the digital-rights group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) found Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, a close confidante of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, signed off on exemptions from “make in India” procurement rules, clearing the way for government forensic institutions to buy at least 422 items of foreign technology, including products made by the Israeli firm Cellebrite.
Modi’s federal government and state governments ruled by his Bharatiya Janata Party are not the only ones who bought this Israeli technology. States governed by the opposition Indian National Congress party, including Himachal Pradesh, Keralam and Karnataka, also purchased similar phone-extraction and cloning tools.
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