{"id":34225,"date":"2021-07-19T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/19\/key-modi-rival-rahul-gandhi-among-indian-targets-of-nso-client"},"modified":"2021-07-19T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:00:56","slug":"key-modi-rival-rahul-gandhi-among-potential-indian-targets-of-nso-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34225","title":{"rendered":"Key Modi rival Rahul Gandhi among potential Indian targets of NSO client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leak suggests Indian opposition leader among hundreds selected for possible surveillance by Modi government<\/p>\n<p>The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s most prominent political rival, the opposition figure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/rahul-gandhi\">Rahul Gandhi<\/a>, was twice selected as a potential surveillance target in leaked phone number data, making him one of dozens of Indian politicians, journalists, activists and government critics whose numbers were identified as possible targets for the Israeli company\u2019s government clients.<\/p>\n<p>Two numbers belonging to Gandhi, who led the Congress party during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/23\/india-election-results-narendra-modi-bjp-victory\">India\u2019s 2019 national elections<\/a>, were selected as candidates for possible surveillance in the year before the vote and in the months afterwards by NSO, whose spying tool Pegasus allows customers to infiltrate mobile phones and monitor messages, camera feeds and microphones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2021\/jul\/19\/key-modi-rival-rahul-gandhi-among-indian-targets-of-nso-client\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leak suggests Indian opposition leader among hundreds selected for possible surveillance by Modi governmentThe Indian prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s most prominent political rival, the opposition figure Rahul Gandhi, was twice selected as a potential s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[667,62,1001,688,433,61,474,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-espionage","category-india","category-india-elections-2019","category-malware","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-surveillance","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34227,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34225\/revisions\/34227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}