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image captionMore than 50 million Indians use smartphones You feel violated, there s no doubt about it, said Siddharth Varadarajan, co-founder of The Wire, a nonprofit news and opinion website in India. This is an incredible intrusion, he said. Nobody should have to deal with this.
Mr Varadarajan, according to media reports, is one of the activists, journalists, politicians and lawyers around the world that have been targeted with phone spyware sold to governments by an Israeli firm. Of a leaked database of 50,000 numbers of interest to the firm s clients, more than 300 reportedly belong to Indians, according to The Wire.
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