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FACT: Beware of what you put in your Facebook messages or your tweets. Your friends and followers may not be the only ones reading them. This follows a home ministry directive to the department of telecom, asking it to "ensure effective monitoring of Twitter and Facebook". While "effective monitoring" has not been defined, sources said the MHA's intention is complete surveillance of the sites. This means not only does the government want to keep an eye on tweets and wall posts that are in the public domain but also the content you share only with your friends.
Minister of state for communication and information technology Milind Deora said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha last week that DoT had received a letter from the MHA asking it to monitor networking websites in order to "strengthen the cyber security paraphernalia". (timesofindia.indiatimes.com 11 Aug 2011)
Minister of state for communication and information technology Milind Deora said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha last week that DoT had received a letter from the MHA asking it to monitor networking websites in order to "strengthen the cyber security paraphernalia". (timesofindia.indiatimes.com 11 Aug 2011)
OWL WATCH: Government is serious on the issue of corruption now. Phone tapping did not yield palatable result for them. So government is trying to find out the real scam-stars behind 2G, 3G, CWG and many other scams sneaking into Facebook and Twitter for some clues.
