India - Government launches new broad offensive on electronic communications

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the latest demands being made by India's security agencies with the aim of reinforcing surveillance of Internet use. Email service providers such as Yahoo! and Gmail are now being instructed to route all emails accessed in India through servers based there to facilitate monitoring. The Indian media report that, during a meeting in the office of the home secretary (interior minister), the department of information technology was told to notify all (...)

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