{"id":25468,"date":"2011-08-10T11:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25468"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:48","slug":"india-government-wants-to-monitor-social-networking-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25468","title":{"rendered":"India: Government wants to monitor social networking websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship: India\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/india\/\">India&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0Department of Telecommunications\u00a0has been asked to <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2011-08-08\/social-media\/29863856_1_facebook-and-twitter-social-networking-websites-monitoring\">monitor\u00a0Twitter and Facebook<\/a>, because of fears that the sites are being used\u00a0to plan terrorist attacks. In April,\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/now-facebooktwitter-under-govt-scanner\/445373\/\">Indian Information Technology (IT) Act\u00a0<\/a>of 2008 was amended,\u00a0giving officials the ability to monitor web activity.\u00a0It also provides officials with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2011-08-08\/social-media\/29863856_1_facebook-and-twitter-social-networking-websites-monitoring\">access to private information<\/a>, including passwords, without a court order. However, Facebook and Twitter\u00a0do not release the information of their\u00a0users without a court order. This coincides with India&#8217;s threat to outlaw the usage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/08\/08\/indian_blackberry_crackdown\/\">Blackberry devices<\/a>, because of Research in Motion&#8217;s refusal to comply with demands to lower the level of encryption of messages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s\u00a0Department of Telecommunications\u00a0has been asked to monitor\u00a0Twitter and Facebook, because of fears that the sites are being used\u00a0to plan terrorist attacks. In April,\u00a0the Indian Information Technology (IT) Act\u00a0of 2008 was amended,\u00a0giving officials the ability to monitor web activity.\u00a0It also provides officials with\u00a0access to private information, including passwords, without a court order. However, Facebook and Twitter\u00a0do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[136,100,3625,727,1721,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94563,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25468\/revisions\/94563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}