Parliamentary panel to discuss WhatsApp snooping case today

A Parliamentary panel headed by Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor will meet on Wednesday to take up the WhatsApp snooping case. The meeting will come a day after 17 people, who were victims of Pegasus snooping, wrote to the parliamentary standing committee on information technology in Delhi on Tuesday demanding an inquiry.

The IT Parliamentary panel will meet to seek response from the Ministries of Electronics & Information Technology, Home Affairs and the Department of Atomic Energy on citizens’ data security and privacy, news agency IANS reported quoting sources.

Pegasus is a spyware that is believed to have broken through encrypted communication systems such as WhatsApp and can monitor about smartphones