Nationwide Snooping System Launched In India

knwny writes "The Times of India reports that 'India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said.'" Adds an anonymous reader: "What's chilling is the comments from senior officials indicating that parts of the program are already live, without absolutely any discussion in public about it."

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Re:Code monkey see, code monkey do

[Anonymous Coward]

> And when it comes to India, the largest democracy in the world, as a rapidly modernizing country that is supplier of IT talent to the world,

But still no toilets for hundreds of millions of its citizens. Way to go, India.