WhatsApp warned Indian govt about Pegasus twice

Whatsapp has responded to the Indian ministry of information and technology which had asked it about the Pegasus snooping row.

The messaging app, a division on Facebook, has said that it informed the Indian government twice about snooping using the malware, once in May and then in September.

The govt responded by saying that it had received the information but had set it aside as technical jargon.