India Sleepwalks Into a Surveillance Society

An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has a fascinating roundup of news stories surrounding the latest surveillance laws passed in India, including a first-hand account of someone writing from inside India. The legislation in question is the Information Technology Act's amendment bill 2006, which was recently passed in the Indian parliament. Things you can't do with the new legislation include surfing for news in Bollywood and looking up porn on the internet. The legislation also allows all transmissions over the internet to be monitored for any form of lawbreaking and permits a sub-inspector to break into your house to make sure you aren't browsing porn on your computer."

Comments

Re:This is how terrorism works

[dontmakemethink]

Worse yet, it is a re-assertion of religion over state. Do any terrorists not justify their acts in some way through religion?

Morality police - surprising?

[shutdown -p now]

Not really. Guys, this is India, the country in which "sodomy" is still illegal and punished by several years in jail.

Re:Wow the 9000th reason not to go to India

[World War III]

Well itâ(TM)s your choice $|_|©|ΣÑ!!! Well can you name a country where there is no disease, poverty, superstition, flies, flies, flies, terrorist attacks. You seems to be living in 18th century. Black Fever(when did u last heard about outbreak of black fever in India). Superstitions- well the Biggest superstition is God(Jesus/Allah/blah...blah...blah is our saviour and will rid us of our sins). Black Plague(When was the last time you heard about outbreak of plague in India -the early 90ies??). Whose F|_|©|!|\|G the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan...and 9/11, Glasgow Attacks, Tube attacks.......list is endless. Famines?? I have never heard about famines in India after Independence.....British were responsible for Famines(due to indiscriminate cultivation of Indigo....and other cash crops rather than food grains) Disease?? Can you name any country which is immune from diseases....We manufacture Medicines 7000times cheaper than in US.... About the news regarding Porn ban......the guy who posted this message is ignorant. Porn was never legal in India. Indian Police is ineffective in terms of cyber policing so, watch porn....Then can never catch you. Those guys don't even have basic computing skills. They are Technically challenged!!!. That's why we call then Thullas(a dumb @$$).

Re:Treat the lepers, ignore the porn

[synthespian]

What a fucking idiot you are. Is that what you learn at the American public school system? No wonder you elected Georgie twice.

Let me give you a few reading tips: go out and search for literature on models of colonization and examine why "America" (or more correctly, the United States, since America is a continent) was founded versus, for instance, what was the aim of the Spanish conquistadores from the Spanish kingdom; next, search for colonialism; read Democracy in America, by De Tocqueville; learn about your civil war and how even in America, those that wanted to keep the yoke of a backwards slave-based economy gave a lot of trouble. Next: imagine that in a country where Her Majesty threw the full weight of Her Empire into crushing the spine of the people - and consider the country had a very different culture than that of the American Revolution - to the point their major resistance leader was one Mahatma Gandhi.

You are so stupid you need to get off /. and get some reading done. Quit with home-grown apple-pie yankee-doodle-dee bottom-line thinking and try to understand the world in more hues than black or white.