Indian government violates privacy safeguards to secretly monitor Internet traffic

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Seen on Techdirt: India Joins The Super-Snooper's Club (No Legality Required)

 

"The LIM [Lawful Intercept and Monitoring] system, in effect, 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 "key words" and "key phrases"."

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It's still better than the UK(where pornographic content filtering is proprietary on all new devices). And India has no stringent privacy laws. They barely give any attention to piracy on the homeland. It shouldn't be a worry if you're behind a VPN or tor.