{"id":20521,"date":"2023-11-02T13:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/india-probes-opposition-phone-tap-allegations\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T13:29:32","slug":"india-probes-opposition-phone-tap-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-probes-opposition-phone-tap-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"India probes opposition phone tap allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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India\u2019s cyber security unit is investigating allegations by opposition politicians of attempted phone tapping<\/a> after they reported receiving Apple iPhone warnings of \u201cstate-sponsored attackers\u201d, media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has opened a probe into the complaints, the Press Trust of India<\/em> news agency reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cApple will cooperate in this probe,\u201d S Krishnan, secretary for the electronics and information ministry, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the information and technology minister, said on Tuesday that the government was \u201cconcerned\u201d by the complaints.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government of Bharat (India) takes its role of protecting the privacy and security of all citizens very seriously and will investigate to get to the bottom of these notifications,\u201d he said on social media.<\/p>\n

Opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi said his staff members had received the iPhone warning message, as well as opposition lawmakers including Shashi Tharoor, Mahua Moitra, and Priyanka Chaturvedi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government may do as much phone tapping as it wants, I am not bothered,\u201d Gandhi said on Tuesday. \u201cIt can take my phone; I am not scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

India\u2019s government was accused<\/a> in 2021 of using the controversial Pegasus spyware technology to surveil political opponents, activists, and journalists, claims it denied.<\/p>\n

Apple has not commented on the case, but its website explains that threat notifications are \u201cdesigned to inform and assist users who may have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s cyber security unit is investigating allegations by opposition politicians of attempted phone tapping after they reported receiving Apple iPhone warnings of \u201cstate-sponsored attackers\u201d, media reported on Thursday. India\u2019s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has opened a probe into the complaints, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. \u201cApple will cooperate in this probe,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/021826392405b72.jpg?r=182644","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t