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Indian Govt to tighten web traffic controls
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 19 August 2010, 10:19 IST |
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NEW DELHI: After BlackBerry , the government is likely to target internet traffic in the country, to enable it to monitor completely all international and domestic data reports Economic Times.
Over the last few weeks, BlackBerry services, Skype and Googlemail has been under Government radar considering the rapidly escalating threat posed by terrorist and criminal elements using data communication
According to department of telecom (DoT) sources, an inter-ministerial group meeting has been called on August 20 and will be attended by senior officials from DRDO, the Cabinet secretariat, security agencies, National Technical Research Organization (NTRO), Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT ) and DoT, to review the internet monitoring systems deployed nationwide by C-DOT .
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) for internet monitoring systems has been requesting the communications info lately.
Internet traffic in India is monitored at international internet gateways using C-DOT systems. Unlike mobile voice and data traffic, the government does not issue specific warrants for intercepting and monitoring messages on specific targets in case of internet services.
The government will need to get a clear policy mandate both with respect to increasing its surveillance and monitoring of internet traffic on one hand and responding to privacy questions on another
