United States in the news regarding the surveillance they do on their citizens, now The Indian government is reportedly carrying out Internet surveillance, in contrast with the government’s rules and notifications for ensuring communications privacy.
‘The Hindu‘ a well-known Indian Newspaper website reveals “Lawful Intercept and Monitoring (LIM) systems have been deployed by the country’s Center for Development of Telematics (D-DOT) to monitor Internet traffic, e-mails, Web browsing, Skype and other Internet activities by Indian citizens.”
LIM is fully owned by the Indian government, unlike mobile operators deploy their own LIM system, allowing “interception” of calls by the government, only after checking “due authorisation” in compliance with Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act reads with Rule 419 (A) of the IT Rules, in the case of the Internet traffic, The Hindu reported.
Paper also explained the LIM existence, the process of seeking authentication by nodal officers exists mostly on paper. Since LIM is fully owned by the government, it sends the request what they need and without any authentication they get the information from the Internet Pipe.
LIM installed between the edge router and core network, it has access to 100% of all Internet activity, with broad surveillance capability, based not just on IP or email addresses, URLs, fttps, https, telenet, or webmail, but even through a broad and blind search across all traffic in the Internet pipe using “keywords” and “key phrases” and also has an “always live” link to the entire traffic—means it can be operated without legal oversight of ISP knowledge.
According to the paper, This monitoring facility is available to nine security agencies including the IB, the RAW and the MHA.
On the other hand, India government Central Monitoring system also on trial and be fully operational in August 2014.
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