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How will the Telecommunication Act impact competition, tech neutrality in India?

January 12, 2024 3:49 pm

The sustained growth of India’s telecom industry sits at the centre of India’s digital revolution. This time it cannot be case of so near, yet so far

Inching towards an Orwellian state: How the new draft telecom bill legally sanctions surveillance without safeguards

September 29, 2022 8:26 am

Even today, large amounts of metadata, including phone numbers and user profiles that include membership of groups and conversations (without their content) are available to law enforcement without any data protection or surveillance reform. Clause 24(2) will lead to greater surveillance by making even personal conversations over OTT communication services available to law enforcement agencies

‘No clear public safety, emergency definition: Net ban being used for routine policing’

December 02, 2021 10:34 am

🔴 It is, therefore, left to the “appropriate authority to form an opinion” on whether an event threatens public safety and emergency, and thereby ban internet in the area, the MHA told the committee.

Monitoring computers and intercepting data is not new, nor is it easy

December 21, 2018 11:57 pm

According to an official, despite the powers, unlike phone conversations, it is not easy to intercept Internet communication. Another complication is that most of these companies do not have servers in India.

Pradeep Sharma asks SC for CBI probe into snooping tapes

November 24, 2013 3:03 am

The contents of the conversations,the plea said,would reveal the hostile attitude and malicious attitude of the state government.

Narendra Modi has lost moral right to be PM candidate: Congress on snooping row

November 18, 2013 2:27 am

Congress fielded its senior women leaders to demand probe by SC judge.

Cong,CPM target Modi over expose

November 17, 2013 5:10 am

The Congress and the Left Saturday targeted BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over the revelation of illegal surveillance of a young woman.

CPM seeks court-monitored probe

November 17, 2013 3:02 am

CPM on Saturday demanded a court-monitored probe into the illegal surveillance of a woman which was allegedly ordered by Narendra Modi.

MPs' panel calls up for phone records of officer,DoT hangs up

September 20, 2013 3:22 am

DoT: Only home secretary authorised as 'competent authority' to issue such orders.

‘Someone will have to go to court’

April 17, 2014 11:07 am

The former chief minister denied having ordered any phone tapping during his tenure,but welcomed a fair probe.

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