Europe seeks to increase deportations as some warn of Trump-like tacticsThe EU is expanding its powers to track, raid, and deport migrants to third countries, adopting tactics similar to the Trump administration...
29 Mar, 2026, 01.36 PM IST
Amid IPL hullabaloo, there's a constant piracy war that goes onAs the IPL returns, illegal streaming persists despite official free streams, highlighting India's piracy paradox. While enforcement disrup...
28 Mar, 2026, 11.39 AM IST
Israel's Cognyte won tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar before coup: ReportThe deal was made even though Israel has claimed it stopped defence technology transfers to Myanmar following a 2017 ruling by Israel's Sup...
16 Jan, 2023, 12.29 AM IST
- No blanket permission to any agency for surveillance under NETRA, NATGRID: Centre to HC
It said that the lawful interception or monitoring or decryption of any message or class of messages or any information stored in any compu...
22 Jun, 2022, 08.18 PM IST
No blanket permission given for surveillance under NETRA, NATGRID: Centre to HCThe government defended the need for the CMS, NETRA and NATGRID surveillance systems saying that "grave threats to the country from terrori...
05 Feb, 2021, 03.47 PM IST
High Court seeks Centre's stand on PIL against NETRA, NATGRID surveillance systemsThe plea by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), has claimed that these surveillance systems allow central and state law enfo...
02 Dec, 2020, 02.33 PM IST
Security agencies unable to decrypt some info on WhatsApp: Ravi Shankar PrasadSecurity agencies are unable to decrypt some of the communication on platforms like WhatsApp to readable formats for various reasons such a...
29 Apr, 2016, 06.07 PM IST
No decision on getting Facebook, Twitter servers to India: GovernmentThe Minister said security agencies face difficulty while dealing with encrypted communications provided by various service providers.
06 May, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
Government taps 9,000 phones every month: ReportThe govt issues 7,500-9,000 telephone interception orders on an average each month - which adds up to a lakh annually, says a report.
04 Sep, 2014, 11.43 AM IST
India seeks US help to intercept chats from online platformsIntelligence Bureau has inputs that anti-social elements and terrorists may be using such chatting services to draw up plans and conspiraci...
03 Dec, 2013, 05.42 AM IST
New tech can allow governments to hear conversations on SkypeUntil now, so called voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services have been difficult to tap into, because of the way they send information...
22 Nov, 2012, 03.25 PM IST
Upgrade tech to intercept GenNext websites: IB to telecom companiesIB has requested the DoT to instruct all telecom service providers to upgrade their software to intercept websites using web 2.0 technology...
01 Oct, 2012, 06.35 AM IST
- DoT bans Nokia's pushmail; telcos to put monitoring system
In a set back to Nokia, govt has asked telecom service providers to bar company's proposed pushmail or powermail, service till it put in pl...
14 Apr, 2011, 07.39 PM IST
- Follow the law, strictly, on tapping
The right to privacy is not, strictly speaking, enshrined in the Indian Constitution. But the Supreme Court has inferred that right as bein...
16 Dec, 2010, 05.16 AM IST
- BlackBerry stand-off may resume in January
Users of Blackberry Messenger Service can be assured of uninterrupted service at least till January 2011.
12 Oct, 2010, 10.23 AM IST
- Banning BlackBerry service will be counterproductive: RIM
BlackBerry manufacturers have suggested forming of a joint consultative forum comprising government, users and service providers for drawin...
04 Oct, 2010, 05.42 PM IST
- NTRO gizmo was in J&K during that time
NTRO’s off-the-air GSM monitoring device was deployed in Kashmir in February 2007, when Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh’s phone i...
27 Apr, 2010, 03.18 AM IST