Pegasus: New Tool for Disciplinary Society

A good friend is potentially a worst enemy. Artificial Intelligence may be a best tool to create ease in our life but it is also a double sword weapon. It may turn out to be lethal enough to change the information into "information warfare" as suggested by former security advisor M.K. Narayanan. Pegasus demonstrates the human's capabilities to intrude privacy at will. It challenges the traditional apparatus of security and asks new questions whose answers must not be given in haste. It requires long term meditation to find out the ramifications and its solutions so as to secure the lives of people. Pegasus allows to transform democratic set up into a "disciplinary society", which is inversely proportional to the choice based democratic moores. Information has stimulating influence over everyone and everything in our epoch. This is a megastructure built upon the edifice of human's Psyche to intrude into the lives of others and to know about the secrecy one wants to maintain. Information is exploited commercially by MNCs and strategically to discipline the unruly desires of citizens. Foucauldean paradigm of "discipline and punish" seems to be evergreen hypothesis which may find new technologies in its fulfillment but its truthfulness is alive like ever before. Question may be asked who is "big brother" in this case, interested to perpetuate the continuous gaze over a few people of high influence. This question needs to be answered by the responsible people for the sake of making a viable society of citizens.

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