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RIM says India tool only for consumer services - 0 views

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    BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said today the network data analysis system (NDAS) was a tool to gain lawful access only to its consumer services including BlackBerry Messenger, and does not enable access to highly secure corporate emails on its devices. RIM, in a statement, reiterated that there would be no change to its security model for corporate emails, clarifying after a newspaper earlier reported RIM had offered to install the tool at its premises in India to help tap data. RIM has said it was cooperating with the Indian government and was enabling mobile carriers to lawfully access data on BlackBerry Messenger. India had threatened to shut off BlackBerry Messenger and corporate email services unless it gains access to them, in a campaign driven by fears that unmonitored communication puts the country's security at risk.
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Coimbatore :'Camera traps ensure culture of compliance' - 0 views

  • 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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DoT warns against unauthorised tapping - 0 views

  • 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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UIDAI to set up data entry centres - 1 views

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    "Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) will soon establish data entry centres in all villages to collect details of citizens so that it can issue Aadhar cards with unique identification number. Officials of UIDAI and the Planning Commission conducted a review meeting in the Zilla Parishad conference hall over the progress of the Aadhar card programme in the district. They have urged public representatives including ZPTC and MPTC members to create awareness among the public over Aadhar cards which would provide unique identification number to every citizen of the country. UIDAI director Mr. Ravindra said applications for the cards would be available at all the ration shops and AP Online centres. According to him, people above 5 years of age were eligible to get the cards. "The scheme is very important for the downtrodden sections as Aadhar cards will enable them to get many benefits from the government," he said. "Corrections in the existing ration cards will also be possible with the entry of new data which is essential for issuing Aadhar cards," he added."
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Financial Express : Video calls to resume soon, interception fix in 6 months - 0 views

  • Private mobile operators like Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices can restart providing video calls as part of their 3G services in the New Year. This comes after the security imbroglio between the operators and the security agencies was resolved a couple of days back with the former giving an undertaking that within the next six months, they would start providing real-time interception of video calls. Currently, such calls can be monitored with a time lag of five to eight minutes, prompting security agencies to ask the operators to stop providing video calls. A tripartite agreement is being drafted between the security agencies, telecom industry associations and the DoT that real-time monitoring of such calls will be available in the next six months failing which such calls will be barred.
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NRI body wants Punjab, Centre to publish list of Proclaimed Offenders - 0 views

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    Chandigarh : "The State of Punjab is sitting over a list of around 1,600 proclaimed offenders, who are settled abroad in various countries including United States of America, United Kingdom and Canada", said Vikram Bajwa, President, Indian Overseas Congress, while addressing a press conference here today. Bajwa, along with Amarjit Kaur Bhinder, widow of bombed plane Kanishka's co-pilot SS Bhinder and his brother Kamaljit Singh Bhinder, addressed reporters in the wake of the forthcoming three-days Pravasi Divas, to be held in New Delhi from January 7. Bajwa said the Indian Overseas Congress has appealed to the Indian government and to the Government of Punjab as well, to upload the list of 1,600 proclaimed offenders on their websites, so that people who are settled abroad and are either falsely implicated in some cases or have been made POs by mistake, make seek legal remedies. "In absence of such information, what happens is that a NRI comes to India, and is detained at the airport. He receives the shock of his life, when he is told that he is a proclaimed offender in a case registered against him 10 years or 20 years ago. If the list is uploaded, at least the genuine people, who had to undergo such harassment, could seek legal remedies and come back to their motherland", Bajwa added.
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Chennai: "Activities of 12,000 criminals monitored" - 0 views

  • Crime rate in the city has recorded a steady downtrend since January this year with the police bringing on record the profile of over 12,000 criminals involved in more than 30,000 cases, Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said on Wednesday. “We have a database of all habitual offenders, who came to the adverse notice of police since 1998 and their activities are being closely monitored. Some fresh offenders and inter-State gangs are indulging in crimes such as chain-snatching and burglaries. Of late, students are also getting involved in crimes… three students were arrested in connection with a crime in Pulianthope,” he told reporters on Wednesday. The details about the crime rate would be released in the first week of January.
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5 revelations from the Post's 'Monitoring America' investigation - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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    5 revelations from the Post's Monitoring America investigation
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After Radia tapes, Govt works on a privacy law - 0 views

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    "Worried about the negative impact of the leakage of intercepted conversations, the Centre has begun working on codifying privacy laws in the country. The new law will frame rules for monitoring phone and the Internet and for providing a redressal mechanism in case of breach of privacy. "
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