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| Facebook, Twitter be brought under |
| Facebook, Twitter be brought under Indian law, intel chief tells Government
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| INDIA
, 23-November-2013
9:8:30 AM |
| A recommendation was made to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today for bringing foreign content-providers like Facebook and Twitter under Indian laws as is the case in several other countries.
This was conveyed by Director of Intelligence Bureau, Asif Ibrahim, on the concluding day of the annual conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police in his address to welcome the Prime Minister.
Outlining the deliberations in the last two days, Mr Ibrahim said there was a special discussion on the vulnerabilities and steps needed to be taken in order to overcome the challenges in cyber space which include constant upgradation of technology through in-house efforts.
He said recent communal incidents had highlighted how social media was being used to instigate people and "it was observed that while security agencies in India were handicapped with technical and procedural constraints, foreign law enforcement agencies have unfettered access to social media."
"The legal framework in India in this context is still evolving. It was recommended that foreign content providers be brought within the ambit of Indian laws supplemented with creation of our own cyber space", he said.
When contacted, Director General of Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-IN) Gulshan Rai said foreign content providers were social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter and this recommendation, if accepted, would make all these websites answerable to Indian law, he said.
The chief of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) told the Prime Minister that that the decision to introduce non-lethal weapons for police while dealing with public agitation had yielded rich dividends.
"As a result of this, only three people lost their lives in the aftermath of hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in Jammu and Kashmir this year as compared to 113 in 2010 public agitation," he said.
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