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The Indian government has authorized 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt data on any computer, sending a shock wave through citizens and privacy watchdogs.
Narendra Modi’s government late Thursday broadened the scope of Section 69 of the nation’s IT Act, 2000 to require a subscriber, service provider, or any person in charge of a computer to “extend all facilities and technical assistance to the agencies.” Failure to comply with the agencies could result in seven years of imprisonment and an unspecified fine.
In a clarification posted today, the Ministry of Home Affairs said each case of interception, monitoring, and decryption is to be approved by the competent authority, which is the Union Home Secretary.
The move should do wonders for the Indian IT industry.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @07:57PM (5 children)
I imagine you're being sarcastic, but I think you're absolutely right. Really what they did was create a massive impetus for creating open sourced hardware level security. And they did it in a country where there are lots of people with the chops to do it.
So yeah. Get ready for the India Secure CPU and bus architecture to be the next big thing.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @08:26PM (3 children)
Lol what? Indians do rote tasks cheap. Where is the last thing they innovated? And I'm not talking about the ones who moved here and aren't going back, doesn't count. I've used russian software, chinese, english, US, etc the absolute only way I've encountered any indian code is because some US company used them as indentured servants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 22 2018, @08:36PM
There /is/ calibre, although thats a huge steaming PoS that's only popular because it has no competition.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 23 2018, @03:26PM (1 child)
I do hope there are some Indian engineers who read that. Because you're just making it a point of pride by being a racist dick.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @06:47AM
That is not racist.
There are several types/races in India including people from several surrounding country's.
In this case "India" / "Indian" refers to a geographic area.
Get an education you mother locking sjw ass.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday December 22 2018, @09:40PM
Like maybe a mass-produced free-as-in-freedom RISC-V chip to be used in computers in classrooms? That's something that might be cost-effective for a government of a billion people to do.
And no royalties to spend out of the country!