Govt will extend full cooperation to committee probing Pegasus: Vaishnaw

The government will fully cooperate with the committee of experts set up by the Supreme Court to probe allegations of snooping using Pegasus software, IT and Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.

He said the government will provide infrastructure, manpower, laboratory facilities, and information needed by the committee to complete its probe.

On social media regulations, the minister said that while social media platforms have given people chance to express themselves freely, at the same time, misuse of technology has placed “a huge burden of thinking” on where should the regulation be.