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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PIL seeks protection of Indian govt's secret data from US snooping

PIL seeks protection of Indian govt's secret data from US snooping

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published Published on Jun 19, 2013   modified Modified on Jun 19, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: Amid reports of US cyber intelligence units snooping on secret data worldwide, a PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a direction to the Union government to take urgent steps to protect its official data stored on the internet and privacy of millions of Indians holding accounts on social networking sites.

Petitioner Prof S N Singh said many government offices and officials use free accounts on Google, Yahoo and Hotmail to send mails and feared that these provided easy access to external agencies to snoop or hack through the database.

He said the government must take urgent steps to safeguard sensitive internet communications "which is 'record' as per provisions of Public Records Act but same is being kept (stored) outside India on US servers which is unlawfully intruded by US's intelligence agencies through US-based internet companies under secret surveillance programme called Prism".

He said snooping had severely compromised privacy of millions of Indians who maintained accounts on these internet portals and other social networking sites. "As per reports, US-based nine internet companies operating in India through agreements signed with Indian users shared 6.3 billion information/data with National Security Agency of US without express consent of the user," he said.

Singh requested the court to direct the government "to initiate action against such internet companies for breach of contract and violation of right to privacy by sharing 6.3 billion Indian data with US intelligence agencies". He also sought a ban on Indian government communications routed through US-based servers.

The petitioner is likely to mention his plea on Wednesday for urgent hearing before a bench of Justices A K Patnaik and Ranjan Gogoi for hearing during the summer vacation. He also pleaded that the internet web hosts not registered in India must be brought under Indian tax laws for the business they do in India.


The Times of India, 19 June, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PIL-seeks-protection-of-Indian-govts-secret-data-from-US-snooping/articleshow/20656911.cms


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