In a country constantly under threat from cross-border terrorism and internal sabotage, one would expect national security tools to be strengthened, not challenged. Yet in a bizarre twist that only India’s activist-judicial complex could produce, a bunch of journalists, activists, and political

The Supreme Court of India has weighed in on the national debate over the use of spyware, suggesting that surveillance tools are not inherently problematic if deployed strictly for national security. The bench observed that the primary concern should be over who is being targeted, not the mere existence of such tools. “To have spyware […]