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After years of small-scale and targeted surveillance, the government is gearing up to mine big data from its citizens. At the core of its plan are intelligence agencies that operate with zero non-executive oversight.

Josy Joseph wasn’t too surprised when he heard about the Pegasus revelations in July. The veteran journalist and author, who has covered military and national security agencies for three decades, had long known of their surreptitious ways of intelligence gathering. At times, he was at the receiving end himself.
In 2005, Joseph uncovered an elaborate operation on how national secrets were being smuggled out of a top-secret naval war room in New Delhi. His reports led to an overhaul of the security systems in military installations. But while he was working on the story, he noticed he was being trailed …