Wednesday, September 25, 2013: Kapil Sibal, Minister for Telecommunications and IT asserted that India will not allow any type of surveillance because there were reports about the US agencies monitoring email and other kind of communications of foreign nationals. He also pointed out that the government can take a stand on this type of surveillance by a foreign country, after it has been assured about the type of data and content being accessed by the users.
“If there is any attempt to access content we will support it through fair means. We will not accept any such manner of surveillance. We have been informed from other side that this is broad looking at trends,” The Times of India quoted Sibal at Indian Women’s Press Corps.
“Never take a position either in diplomacy or domestically unless you are completely in control of it. Unless we know that what is accessed by some other agency outside India is data and content then only can we react. Our own agencies have not been able to figure out whether any content or data was accessed,” Sibal added.
The documents offered by whistleblower, Edward Snowden stated that US surveillance programme, which accesses Internet usage data had 700 snooping servers installed at 150 locations across the globe.
