Pegasus project: Dalai Lama’s key advisers in snooping target list, says report

Closest advisers to the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and members of his staff were potential targets of NSO’s Pegasus, media houses who are part of the global collaborative project investigating the database of numbers that may have been targeted by the spyware said on Thursday.

At least 300 persons in India and as many as 50,000 worldwide have been identified by the global collaborative investigative project as targets of the surveillance.

A report by The Wire, a digital news platform, which is part of the collaboration, stated that phone numbers of several Tibetan officials, activists and clerics were found in the database, starting from the late 2017 to early 2019.