The government has issued fresh directives to military personnel to refrain from divulging classified information and data on social networking websites like Facebook, Orkut and Twitter.
Defence minister A K Antony admitted in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that cases of "unauthorized sharing of information by naval personnel on social networking sites" had been detected in a recent case..............
Defence minister A K Antony admitted in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that cases of "unauthorized sharing of information by naval personnel on social networking sites" had been detected in a recent case..............
The naval Board of Inquiry (BoI) into the case has recommended stringent action, including dismissal of service, against at least two officers for posting location of warships, their patrolling patterns and other information on Facebook.
The Navy HQ here is currently examining the BoI report, conducted at the Western Naval Command at Mumbai, against four commander-rank officers (equivalent to Lt-Colonels in the Army) from the naval technical branch.
After this case, the armed forces have once again issued directives to their personnel to strictly refrain from putting sensitive information and service-related matters, like location of units or deployment patterns, on social networking sites.
The Army has directed all its officers and personnel to even remove all their pictures and information showing their affiliation to the service from their personal profiles on such websites.
Instructions are also in place to be extremely careful in the use of computer and digital storage devices after intelligence alerts pointed to an increase in leakage of classified data from defence establishments through the use of pen drives, removable hard disks, CDs, VCDs etc.
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