The Hindu reports on its investigation into the upcoming launch of India’s Central Monitoring System (CMS) , which found “the Internet activities of India’s roughly 160 million users are already being subjected to wide-ranging surveillance and monitoring, much of which is in violation of the government’s own rules and notifications for ensuring ‘privacy of communications.’” The CMS plan has prompted privacy concerns in recent months, but The Hindu’s investigation found the government already has monitoring systems “deployed by the Centre for Development of Telematics for monitoring Internet traffic, e-mails, web-browsing, Skype and any other Internet activity of Indian users.”
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