What is more alarming is that in 2014, India is going to invest about 22,500 crores in these technologies. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), aided by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is scheduled to launch India's first dedicated spy satellite, named CCISat, which will suck up gigabytes of electronic information from its orbital position 500 kilometres above the earth, passing it on to military supercomputers that will scan it for information of military and intelligence values.

Our fellow citizens have been very clear and candid in voicing their opinions regarding these outrageous actions of the government. People are very right in saying that such technologies are a blatant violation of our privacy, freedom and democratic rights. Such high-tech communication intelligence gadgets should be used only against internal and external threats and not for unauthorized and widespread electronic eavesdropping of private communications. The data used by the Unique Identification Authority of India and the National Population Register are also being seen as extensions of the same problem as personal and private data of the public is being made available to government authorities.

Assange said that such technologies are a threat to investigative journalism and that “The only way we are going to win this war is by developing counter-surveillance systems.'' Assange also warned that with entire populations being subjected to surveillance, nobody anywhere in the world is safe anymore.

What seems to be the irony here is that an organization (WikiLeaks), considered an unconstitutional one by many countries, has been instrumental in taking constructive measures to safeguard our rights, while our own government has turned a blind eye towards the concerns of its own people. Times like these make us question as to whether we still live in a democratic nation and whether our government is our true representative.