India recently published a controversial bill regarding encryption. The proposed legislation would require that social media users to save simple text documents to share their messages with the police. Besides being highly unlikely for users to actually follow such intense method of record keeping, the law would violate the fundamental privacy of online users. Users are also extremely concerned about the implications of the text document that are not very safe.
Further details from a Communications Ministry official revealed that the committee wanted to applications like WhatsApp and Viber to provide versions in plain text, but as these applications use encryption to hide messages, this proposal is just as ridiculous.
A spokesman Bharatia Janata Party Mr Modi retorted "Tomorrow they will start demanding that you Vidéographe what was going on in your bedroom for the last 0 days."
the legislation is similar to legislation currently active in China and Russia. Both countries are heavily censor Internet traffic, and even block large sites like Twitter and Facebook to keep control over the traffic monitoring.
Fortunately, although somewhat skeptical, the Indian government said they did not favor the law is that it was just something publicy said, as proposed by the Department of electronics and information technology. Ravi Shankar, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said: "I want to clarify that it is just a project and not the views of the government"
Due to rough reception. intense criticism, the law was retracted a few days later, but that did not help the embarrassment of travel Prime Minister of India to Silicon Valley in California. Ironically, the Prime Minister is a great activist mobilized networks.
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