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Coimbatore :'Camera traps ensure culture of compliance' - 0 views

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  • Coimbatore: The surveillance cameras installed on city roads at 186 places, including 46 signals, were yielding rich dividends in terms of the enforcement alsoensuring a culture of compliance among motorists, City Police Commissioner C. Sylendra Babu said here recently. Talking to reporters, Mr. Babu said that the cameras were installed and connected to the five LCD screens at the modern control under the Aerial Traffic Control System (ATCS) at a cost of Rs 1.69 crore provided under the Road Safety Funds. The cameras helped in maintaining surveillance against crime, unlawful activities thus providing the benefits of an electronic eye.
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Home ministry wants agencies to be kept out of privacy law - 0 views

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  • privacy india on 26 Dec 11
     
    New Delhi: Indian citizens won't be shielded from prying by government agencies if the Union home ministry gets its way with the proposed privacy law. The ministry is insisting that intelligence and law enforcement agencies be kept out of the purview of the proposed Act, and allowed to continue monitoring the activities and carry out electronic surveillance of citizens, officials familiar with the situation said.
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DoT warns against unauthorised tapping - 0 views

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  • The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Thursday warned telecom companies and private detective agencies against indulging in any kind of unauthorised interception of telephone calls, saying that those caught will be booked and punished as per the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act. “It has come to the notice that some persons, companies, including Public Sector Undertakings, private vendors and private detective agencies are establishing, maintaining or operating unauthorised communications network, including wireless network for unauthorised monitoring, intercepting and surveillance of communications, and some times are importing these equipment for demonstration purpose to Law Enforcing Agencies for short duration,” DoT said in a statement. “Such type of acts violates the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 and persons or companies involved in such types of acts are liable to punishment as per provision of Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933,” it added. This Act gives powers to the government to seize the equipment and also carries a maximum punishment of three-year imprisonment.
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Right to privacy may become fundamental right - Times Of India - 0 views

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shared by gibreel ferishta on 06 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • gibreel ferishta on 06 Jun 11
     
    The law ministry is working on a proposal to make right to privacy a fundamental right in the Indian Constitution. The right to privacy would include the right to confidentiality of communication, confidentiality of private or family life, protection of his honour and good name, protection from search, detention or exposure of lawful communication between individuals, privacy from surveillance, confidentiality of banking, financial, medical and legal information, protection from identity theft of various kinds, protection of use of a person's photographs, fingerprints, DNA samples and other samples taken at police stations and other places and protection of data relating to individual.
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Telcos told to install online monitoring equipment - 0 views

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  • privacy india on 30 Sep 11
     
    NEW DELHI: The government has asked telecom operators and internet service providers (ISPs) to install indigenously developed monitoring equipment, in a move aimed at increasing surveillance of internet traffic. Post installation, the cost of which will have to be borne by operators, the equipment produced by state-owned research agency C-DoT will be manned by the government's security agencies.
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MI5 mistakenly tapped innocent people's phone numbers: Report - 0 views

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shared by gibreel ferishta on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • gibreel ferishta on 12 Jul 11
     
    "LONDON: Britain's internal spy agency MI5 tapped innocent people's phone numbers in secret surveillance mix-up, according to a government report. Officers from the Security Service -- mainly concerned with the UK's internal security -- and Serious Organised Crime Agency mistakenly tapped the wrong telephones in as many as 30 cases, says the report. However, on grounds of national security, none of the victims have been identified or told their phones were wrongly intercepted, the 'Daily Mail' reported. "
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Chandigarh set to acquire UAV 'Netra' - 0 views

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  • privacy india on 18 Oct 11
     
    To Bolster the surveillance capability, the Chandigarh Police is set to acquire an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 'Netra' for Rs 35 lakh as necessary certificates from the Defence Research and Development Organisation has reached them. Now, the proposal will be sent to Chandigarh Administration to take a final decision on it. "The acquisition of the UAV has been delayed as the company that had developed 'Netra' had submitted certificates from its side, but the 'propriety certificate' and 'reasonability certificate' (a certificate indicating that the rates quoted are not more than that charged to other government bodies or PSUs) from the DRDO were awaited," said Alok Kumar, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Chandigarh.
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CCTV camera plan set to take off in November - 0 views

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  • privacy india on 31 Oct 11
     
    The RFP will be floated on the basis of the recommendations of an expert panel on specifications for cameras and connectivity. The panel includes IIT professors and senior state officials (who are former IITians). The state plans to install 5,000 CCTV cameras at sensitive locations in the city as part of the surveillance network. The project is estimated to cost Rs 600 crore.- Sandeep Ashar
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New norms for 3G video calls soon - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 07 Jan 11
     
    The government will soon issue guidelines to address security concerns over 3G video calls. "3G issue is almost resolved. Soon you will have new guidelines," communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal said. Yesterday, home minister P Chidambaram had said that telecom service providers neeed to work out the modalities to provide interception facilities to the security agencies, and only after that can the 3G mobile services be rolled out. The department of telecommunications (DoT) had asked Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications to stop commercial launch of 3G mobile services, including video calling facility. The law enforcement agencies were not able to intercept the video calls on a real time basis. The contents of video calls were displayed only after five minutes. The operators had offered to provide an interception solution in the next six months.
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Radia tapes: Tata questions 'lackadaisical' attitude of Centre - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 12 Jan 11
     
    Industrialist Ratan Tata has questioned in the Supreme Court the lackadaisical attitude of the Centre in allowing free distribution and publication of his private conversations with lobbyist Nira Radia recorded by the Directorate General of Income Tax without taking any steps to retrieve the stored material or to find out the source of leakage. Mr. Tata, who filed a writ petition alleging that the publication of the tapes had infringed his right to privacy, in his supplementary affidavit said that the power of the law enforcement agencies to record telephone conversations itself "constitutes a serious encroachment upon the right of privacy guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution." He made it clear that the present petition was not designed to somehow keep back from publication any conversation to which he allegedly was a party for any oblique purpose. It was filed to seek redress of a wholesale violation of the constitutional rights of a large number of persons, including the petitioner and including a host of corporate entities by the indiscriminate publication of wiretrap material procured by questionable means.
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DoT moots up to Rs 2-cr penalty on unlawful phone tapping - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 17 Jan 11
     
    Amid a debate over phone-tapping and making conversations public without authorisation, the Telecom Ministry has proposed a penalty of up to Rs 2 crore on unlawfully tapping, as against the prevailing Rs 500. In a communique to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the Department of Telecom (DoT) has proposed a penalty between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 2 crore for breaches under different sections of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. For breaching Section 26 of the Act, which prohibits telegraph officers or other officials from making away with or altering, unlawfully intercepting or disclosing messages, or divulging the purport of signals, maximum penalty has been proposed.
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Nod for video calls on 3G networks - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 14 Jan 11
     
    The Union government on Thursday permitted carriage of video calls on 3G mobile networks subject to an undertaking by the operators that they would provide interception capability by July 31. The Tatas and the RCom have already launched the 3G service across various circles, while others, including Bharti and Vodafone, are likely to start the service soon. Those offering the service were asked to stop the service as security agencies were not able to intercept the video calls on real-time basis.
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Income Tax department mulls blueprint for super sleuth - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 15 Jan 11
     
    Nineteen Eighty-Four may arrive sooner than you think. And, it will be the income-tax department that could take on the role of an Orwellian Big Brother should the government clear a far-reaching proposal to create a directorate of criminal investigation on the lines of a similar wing of the internal revenue service in the US. Under a blueprint currently being vetted by the I-T department, the directorate will house a centralised repository of data culled from telephone and Internet intercepts, banking and market transactions, cross-border deals and even your friendly neighbourhood ATM. To analyse this data and red-flag suspicious activities, the department will also acquire state-of-the-art forensic tools, including software to follow cash trails, track money laundering, conduct forensic audits, mine books and other texts, as well as plug into overseas servers and social networking sites.
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Nagpur woman files RTI complaint alleging British secret service tracking her - 0 views

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    The Central Information Commission was stumped when a woman sought its direction to the CBI on her peculiar complaint that the British secret service has planted a bug inside her and was tracking her movements. But the CIC dismissed the plea of the woman from Nagpur observing that her problem seems to be more medical than lack of information. The woman had approached Central Information Commission (CIC) for a direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to get details of this chip and involvement of the secret service.
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Govt must protect tapped conversations, says SC - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 25 Feb 11
     
    Industrialist Ratan Tata on Thursday accused the government of adopting a "lackadaisical" manner in protecting the right to privacy, citing his case as an apt example. "Today my concern is that government is not giving serious consideration and attention to the issue. There may be other CDs which can be leaked and brought into public domain. There is a lackadaisical approach on the part of the government," senior Advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Tata in the Supreme Court, contended. Tata's concerns prompted the Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly to remark that though the government " have the right to tap but they also have the duty to protect it and ensure that it is not leaked". "They have to safeguard it (the tapes) effectively. In the fast-changing time and developing technology, privacy is virtually disappearing and is being diluted," the court observed.
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CBDT to lose its tapping rights - Committee of Secretaries - 0 views

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  • gibreel ferishta on 18 Mar 11
     
    With allegations of misuse as well as fears of breach of privacy mounting, authorities are working to ban phone tapping in cases of tax evasion, except when the matter may have a bearing on national security. Even in cases concerning national security, only Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) or Enforcement Directorate (ED) will do phone-tapping after additional scrutiny of its request is done in consultation with both home and finance ministries. CBDT, another agency under the finance ministry which is empowered to tap phones, is being taken off the list.
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