The big global story that's taken the world by storm is the Pegasus snooping scandal, which has been unearthed by 17 media organisations, Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International has thrown up names of heads of state, prime ministers, royal families, activists, journalists and business tycoons who were spied on. To know its implications and decode the legalities involved, CNBC-TV18's Parikshit Luthra spoke to Israeli Human Rights Lawyer Eitay Mack, Tech Editor and Reporter of Haaretz.com Omer Benjakob and journalist at Le Monde, Damien Leloup.

China’s onslaught of regulatory crackdowns on tech companies rattled global markets Monday when it announced some curtailing measures on after-school tutoring institutions and asked them to convert into not-for-profit companies. For more reasons on why China is attacking its consumer-focused internet companies, watch the accompanying video of CNBC-TV18’s Prashant Nair.

Caught in the eye of a storm, the Israeli NSO Group has suspended some of its clients from using its spyware Pegasus. However there is no clarity on who these clients are. The move comes on the back of mounting pressure from the French government, which is extremely upset over reports that President Macron's phone may have been targeted for surveillance.

Apple Inc on Thursday said it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhones in the United States for matches with known images of child sexual abuse before they are uploaded to its iCloud storage services. If enough child abuse image uploads are detected, Apple will initiate a human review and report the user to law enforcement officials, the company said.