Privacy

31975 readers

248 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Telecom Bill allows Centre to take over, suspend services over ‘national security’ (www.indiatoday.in)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As an Indian, I know protesting against this bill is the best we can do but it seems like most of the people in country arent aware about this or simply dont care, this is disastorous!!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For a split second I thought this was in the US.

And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me this is already Law in the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't doubt that it is, and we just don't know about it.

The NSA (CIA?, well Fed assholes) installed surveillance gear in Verizon data centers in the 90's so they could listen to any phone call or read any text message. It was reported about 1996ish.

Never heard that it was removed, or if they were in other telecom systems.

So yea, my guess is it's already there. Even worse, people in the right positions are probably controllable (again, good old CIA/NSA at work, thanks Hoover, ya jackass). Don't need a law or specialized gear when the right people are already compromised.

Just read up on why Bill Gates even got an audience with IBM...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

In the US it would be passed at 1:00am and no one would notice for 10 years