Monday, March 11, 2013

India enforcement agencies make 13 requests a day on web users


NEW Delhi: Beware! You are being monitored by the intelligence agencies on Internet. According to reports,  India made an average of 13 requests a day to Google for access to personal web details of web users during 2012.

In terms of the number of requests for web user details during 2012, India is next to only the US, which made 45 requests a day on an average — the highest for any country.

The US made a total of 16,407 such requests to Google during 2012, followed by India’s 4,750, France’s 3,239, Germany’s 3,083, UK’s 2,883 and Brazil’s 2,777 in top-five.

The number of requests from all these countries rose in 2012, while the worldwide total also rose by 20 percent in 2012 to 42,327, as per Google’s latest Transparency Report.

The number of requests from all these countries rose in 2012, while the worldwide total also rose by 20 percent in 2012 to 42,327, as per Google’s latest Transparency Report

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