Government Asks Skype To Set Up Servers In India
The meeting also added that the segregation of IP addresses would allow the home secretaries under Indian Telegraph Act and Information Technology Act to lawfully intercept in areas under their jurisdiction. Every firm must appoint a nodal officer in each state with access to GGSN gateway. He must know that part of the network that controls delivery of data packets from and to the mobile stations within a geographical service area.
Last year, ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and tele-cos were asked to block Twitter in eight states namely Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh as the social networking site was used to ‘fan communal tensions’ following violence in Bodo-dominated areas of Assam.
But the ban was not implemented as tele-cos said that they could block the site on a national basis only. Then the government decided to set an ‘appropriate regime’ addressing issues related to blocking content in a timely and consistent manner. The new decision was to frame an effective cyber monitoring system with guidelines and operations on the type of online content that would be blocked and specify penalties to suspects.
