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Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes

Posted by kdawson on from the just-don't-press-any-keys dept.

YIAAL writes "Indian journalist Amit Varma reports that Mumbai's police are requiring the city's 500 Internet cafes to install keystroke loggers, which will capture every keystroke by users and turn that information over to the government — nearly in realtime by the sound of it. Buy things online, and the underpaid Indian police will have your credit card number. 'Will these end up getting sold in a black market somewhere? Not unlikely.'"

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  1. Excellent news! by joshv · · Score: 5, Funny

    After they hire all the people required to sift and parse this data, there will be no Indian programmers left for outsourcing. Bravo, keep up the good work - bureaucracy know no bounds.

  2. Damn Liberal whiners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You damn liberals just don't get it: we are fighing a War on Terra, and need EVERY tool available to us. You don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide.

    It's the duty of every good conservative to have blind faith in government. Government derives it's power from the wealthy, and as every good conservative knows, God tells us the wealthy are better people (that's why they have money). So if you are against the government... ANY government (especially a good conservative dictatorship), you are just a terrorist.