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Blogger Writes from Inside the Newest Police State on the Planet

By DrewWilson

What would it be like if all those anti-privacy laws you keep hearing about passed? Just ask someone who lives in India. When it comes to countries in North America, it's not often that India reaches the headlines unless a Canadian or an American is involved in the story. Then again, there is the occasional report that does offer a small glimpse into what it is like to live in the digital environment of India. A blogger from India recently wrote a piece about the new surveillance laws of India and the arguments used to pass it as well as some of the provisions that were mentioned seemed surprisingly similar to that of laws being brought forth to legislators in countries like Australia, Britain and what is currently being talked about in the United States. Sometimes, reports like these raises the question of validity, so we took some initiative and verified what was happening through a business article writing in 2007 that suggests that the Indian security market then was worth $170 million.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on January 02, 2009 (boomark / email).