It is the first such case in the country. Victims of Pegasus hacks say they have to live with surveillance risk. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In response to reports in July, a Thai minister admitted in Parliament that the country uses surveillance software – without specifying which programme – to track people in cases related to national security or drugs.Besides Thailand, officials in Indonesia and activists, journalists and lawyers in India have also been reported to have been targeted with Pegasus.
There is no such recourse for victims in Thailand, said Ms Sutawan Chanprasert, executive director of DigitalReach. In Thailand, Citizen Lab identified Pegasus use as far back as May 2014 when the army took charge after a coup, and reported on a potential Pegasus operator in the country in 2018. A lawsuit filed by iLaw in November against NSO on behalf of eight of the 30 hacking victims was dismissed by the Civil Court in Bangkok on grounds that the cases could not be combined.Its chances are slim, admits Ms Golda Benjamin, Asia-Pacific campaigner at digital rights group Access Now, which uses litigation as a way to push against state surveillance worldwide.
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