Page 6 - Surveillance

Should violations of tax, anti-corruption laws be subject to surveillance?

Interceptions in India today are authorised by eight central enforcement agencies for a spectrum of issues

A paranoid guide to fighting the 'bugging epidemic'

With surveillance gear cheaper and easier to use, security experts say checking your environment for cameras and microphones is not a crazy idea

Centre wants WhatsApp to explain Israeli spyware breach by November 4

It is still not clear which government entity bought the software that has reportedly impacted 1,400 devices globally

Amazon workers in India, Romania could be watching Cloud Cam home footage

Teams working on the Cloud Cam programme have picked up activity homeowners are unlikely to want shared, including rare instances of people having sex.

Emulating China: India seeks to adopt facial recognition system for police

The government says the move is designed to help one of the world's most understaffed police forces, which has one officer for every 724 citizens

Cannot disclose phone tapping permissions: Home Ministry to RTI query

The Home Ministry invoked three exemption clauses from the RTI Act to withhold the information without giving any reasons

From New Delhi to Patna, govt is watching your social media from 61 places

Law enforcement agencies are in the process of installing this 'strategic' tool to monitor social media activities at 59 more locations, shows RTI response

Govt order giving agencies vast snooping powers challenged in Supreme Court

Legal experts have said that the powers given to agencies under Section 69 of the IT Act need to be looked at afresh in view of the top court declaring the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right

86% against Centre's move to intercept data on personal computers: BS poll

Govt issued an order authorising 10 security and investigative agencies and Delhi Police to "intercept, monitor and decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored on any computer"

Governance over-reach

Surveillance must require authorisation from a magistrate

Surveillance notification draconian, creates sense of police state: Experts

Govt notification could be challenged in Supreme Court, say experts

Attempt to replace democracy with Modicracy: Congress on 'snooping order'

Taking to Twitter, Congress President Rahul Gandhi called Modi an 'insecure dictator'

10 intel, security agencies authorised to monitor, decrypt 'any' computer

The order was passed late night Thursday by the 'cyber and information security' division of the Union Home ministry under the authority of Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba

Snooping row: Arun Jaitley says authorisation given under UPA-era rules

Jaitley said the rules under which agencies have been authorised to intercept were framed in 2009 when the Congress-led UPA was in power

Undemocratic, unacceptable: Oppn slams MHA's surveillance directive

TMC's Sukhendu Sekhar Roy labelled the move "draconian" and accused the government of tapping the phones of all opposition leaders

Chinese jets intercept US surveillance plane

The Pentagon confirmed that two Chinese jets had carried out the intercept

How spy tech firms let governments see everything on a smartphone

The NSO Group is one of a number of companies that sell surveillance tools that can capture all the activity on a smartphone

Sebi, exchanges beef up surveillance; debars 1,350 entities

Stock exchanges have suspended trading in nearly 200 securities of listed companies, moved over 150 scrips to lower price bands during the last 2 years