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| Indian government eavesdropping 'chilling': rights group |
| 2013-06-08 |
| [Pak Daily Times] An Indian government move to implement blanket eavesdropping of online activities, telephone calls and text messages is "chilling", Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said on Friday as controversy raged in the US about Internet surveillance. The Central Monitoring System was announced in parliament late last year and is a so-called "single window" allowing Indian state bodies such as the National Investigation Agency or tax authorities to monitor communications. New York-based Human Rights Watch demanded a full public debate about "the intended use of the system before proceeding" as the monitoring was created without parliamentary approval. The Indian surveillance comes as reports emerged that the US National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been tapping into the servers of Google ...contributed $814,540 to the 2008 Obama campaign... , Yahoo!, Facebook and six other top US Internet companies, stirring a major row in the United States. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Top-level stuff....! |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-06-08 22:25 |