The fragility of the mobile phone ecosystem
Hindustan TimesOn July 18, an international media consortium reported the presence of a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers from across the world which were possible targets of the Pegasus spyware. Several tools can be employed far too easily in today’s fragile mobile phone ecosystem. Even a small software company can introduce spyware inadvertently by using a software development kit that may forward the users’ data to unknown destinations or servers. Our privacy conversations will be incomplete unless we acknowledge the overwhelming presence of all the prominent players in the mobile phone space who have easy access to user data at a very granular level. The lack of awareness about the extent of data collection by various entities in the mobile ecosystem — including small to medium software companies, tech giants surveillance-centric companies such as NSO — makes it difficult to gather public support to push back against these intrusions and ensure a systemic change in the mobile ecosystem that is truly privacy-conserving.
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