Pegasus And The Law

The recent news regarding Pegasus, which is a surveillance software developed by an Israel-based cyber security company, has sparked a lot of controversy. This software revealed one of the largest and highly sophisticated cyber attacks that have been directed onto the civilians wherein this spyware was used to gain access to target phones in India. These targets include numerous journalists, opposition leaders, activists etc. The "Pegasus Attack" allegedly violated the privacy of prominent Indian citizens and threatened to destabilize economies all around the world through its highly nuanced features. The primary discussion pertaining to this is the lack of effective national and international laws that exist in order to protect civilians from attacks such as this that cause a threat to the privacy and security of a country and its individuals. This is frightening as this is not the only attack that the world has seen and there have been others albeit smaller cyber