Pegasus Project: Re-Questioning the Legality of the Cyber-Surveillance Mechanism

Atul Alexander () and Tushar Krishna
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Atul Alexander: Department of Law, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata 700098, West Bengal, India
Tushar Krishna: Department of Law, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata 700098, West Bengal, India

Laws, 2022, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: States have recently indulged in purchasing surveillance spyware such as Pegasus from big corporations such as the NSO Group to track the activities of its people to curb dissidents. Unfortunately, such incidences are not new in the international domain. Thus, it is imperative to analyze the legality of such spyware used by the states with the assistance of foreign corporates under the international framework. In view of the same, the paper while majorly focusing on the significance of right to privacy, traces the standing limitations in the legal mechanism and tries to propose a shared responsibility regime for states and surveillance companies indulging in human rights violations by drawing parallels with the ICoCA mechanism.

Keywords: Pegasus; surveillance; corporate liability; human rights; spyware (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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