IT panel may summon Apple on hacking alerts

The parliamentary committee on information technology is considering calls by opposition members to summon Apple for information details on why certain people, including at least nine political leaders, were sent notifications warning them of hacking attempts, a day after the issue turned into a political row with the opposition accusing the BJP-led government of snooping on them.

Shiv Sena’s Prataprao Jadhav, the chair of the committee, told HT that the he will ask the secretariat whether Apple can be summoned and added that the issue will likely be taken at a meeting after Diwali.

The push to summon the company, which had warned a number of opposition leaders of attempts by “state-sponsored” attackers to break into their Apple accounts and their iPhones, was made by opposition members of the panel.