Indian government to monitor all communications through Central Monitoring System

Pranesh Prakash, the director of policy at the Centre for Internet and Society, condemned a central monitoring system. "In the absence of a strong privacy law that promotes transparency about surveillance and thus allows us to judge the utility of the surveillance, this kind of development is very worrisome". He continued, "This has been done with neither public nor parliamentary dialogue, making the government unaccountable to its citizens."
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http://www.readability.com/articles/1zklqel8
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=nP5pXSrMHt4#t=3375s
Milind Deora actually states on record here that CMS is being setup to protect your privacy and to safeguard the security of the country. Woo!
 
Milind Deora basically said that CMS was required to prevent the mobile operator from knowing who on their network is being monitored by the government.
He said that once CMS is established, mobile operator would not have the ability to monitor your conversation at all as the control would be with the government.
He also said that it is better for the government to have an eye on your online and mobile communications than a private company.
He said nothing about the need for a Privacy Law in India which is of course insane.
And yes, he used the same excuse… national security… for the need to have CMS in place.
 
Indian government is not amused that US government is infringing on our privacy.
“We feel that the Cyber Security Dialogue coordinated by the National Security Councils on both sides is the appropriate forum to discuss such issues. We intend to seek information and details during consultations between interlocutors on both sides on this matter. If Indian laws relating to privacy of information about ordinary Indian citizens have been violated, surely we will find it unacceptable,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said.
“Yes, we are concerned and surprised over it,” he said noting that reports about the spy programme was an evolving situation.
“We will take it as it evolves and have a better understanding and a clearer paradigm of how to tackle this issue once broader parameters in its entirety are available for us,” he said.
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http://www.readability.com/articles/se8xahig
 
The CMS will have unfettered access to the existing Lawful Interception Systems (LIS), currently installed in the network of every fixed and mobile operator, ISP, and International Long Distance service provider. Mobile and long distance operators, who were required to ensure interception only after they were in receipt of the “authorisation,” will no longer be in the picture. With CMS, all authorisations remain secret within government departments.
This means that government agencies can access in real time any mobile and fixed line phone conversation, SMS, fax, web-site visit, social media usage, Internet search and email, including partially written emails in draft folders, of “targeted numbers.” This is because, contrary to the impression that the CMS was replacing the existing surveillance equipment deployed by mobile operators and ISPs, it would actually combine the strength of two — expanding the CMS’s forensic capabilities multiple times.
Even where data mining and ‘meta-data’ access through call data records (CDRs) and session initiation protocol data records (SDRs) — used for Internet protocol-related communications including video conferencing, streaming multi-media, instant messaging, presence information, file transfer, video games and voice & fax over IP is concerned — the CMS will have unmatched capabilities of deep search surveillance and monitoring. The CMS is designed to have access to call content (CC) on multiple E1 leased lines through operators ‘billing/ mediation servers’. These servers will reveal user information to the accuracy of milliseconds, relating to call duration, identification and call history of those under surveillance. Additionally, it will disclose mobile numbers and email IDs, including pinpointing the target’s physical location by revealing cellphone tower information.
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Slightly unrelated
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/solar-scam-policemen-in-the-dock-for-leaking-information/article4841250.ece?homepage=true

The leaked call details, however, throw up questions regarding the privacy of information available with the police.
Police officials routinely collect various details about people being investigated. While it is illegal for police officers to use such information for non-official purposes, the Sarita case shows that policemen use material that is part of the investigation for other ends.
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Imagine the power these crooks will have once CMS is in place
 

Good that I already use VPN on my router that encrypts everything...PC,iPad,phones.... so significantly safe...
these guys even might collect info on who watches pron and threaten... it's India and it might happen 🙂
 

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