Lack of effective legislation to protect personal data and the government’s efforts to monitor communications contribute to rising unease...........
When the world’s largest online company Google Inc. changed its privacy policy in March making personal information more vulnerable, it immediately came under the scrutiny of both the US and the UK governments. But India has no teeth to handle such a situation; the changes by Google do not fall within the purview of the country’s Information Technology Act, 2000, minister of state for communications Sachin Pilot told the Rajya Sabha on 30 March.
While India, too, may need a law to protect its people from being exploited by companies—51 million of Facebook’s 900 million users are from India—many Indians also fear the possibility of the government monitoring personal information under the garb of protecting the nation..........
As companies develop more tools to collect and analyse user data, there are increasing concerns of how data on people are being collected, used, shared and combined, both by governments as well as by private companies.............
In India, though Internet penetration is a dismal 10%, it is expected to leapfrog with the advancements in mobile telephony................
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