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India Wants Tech Platforms To Break Encryption, Scrub "Unlawful" Content





"The government of India wants tech platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Google to remove content it deems "unlawful" within 24 hours of official notice, and develop "automated tools" which would "proactively identify and remove such material," reports BuzzFeed, citing the publication of the proposed rules by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

The rules would also require companies to break end-to-end encryption to allow the government to snoop on communications.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) published the proposed rules on its website following a report on Monday by the Indian Express revealing the government’s proposal to modify the country’s primary IT law to work them in. The report comes days after India’s government seemingly authorized 10 federal agencies to snoop into every computer in the country last week.

The proposed measures have provoked concerns from privacy activists who say they would threaten free speech and enable mass surveillance. -BuzzFeed

THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THIS IS CHINESE POLICY. HOW DID WE GO FROM PRIVACY AS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO SURVEILLANCE? #censorship #surveillance #privacy #facebook #google

— Megha Mandavia (@MeghaMandaviaET) December 25, 2018

"[On] the face of it, [the government seems] to be contemplating pro-active censorship and breaking encryption with traceability," said Indian Supreme Court lawyer Apar Gupta, who co-founded the Internet Freedom Foundation. "They will make the internet a corporal environment, damaging the fundamental rights of users," he told the Indian Express.

More at :

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...lawful-content