Opening discussion for the new Amendments passed by the two Houses to the IT Act, 2000. Some fundamental questions:
1. The State's ability and resources to monitor correspondence and content,
2. The definitions of inappropriate and malicious content, and
3. Potential for abuse and loopholes in the Act.
Here's a link to get you started (note the date, it's 4 months old):
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Opinion | There is an inspector in my email
And here's a post from vishalrao who picked up the issue, but the discussion faltered and failed to amplify it. It's the only post in the whole forum that talks about it, I hadn't picked it up till somebody posted the Telegraph article on Facebook, and that was today.
http://www.techenclave.com/1117255-post8.html
There seems to be some media noise about the issue recently, but it's surprising that it missed almost all of us completely. Are we being blindsided? Seems the new amendments are not yet published, either on the government portals which seem to be carrying the last amendments from 2006, but not the ones passed in April (or whenever).
Any legal experts here who would know about this? And any comments?
1. The State's ability and resources to monitor correspondence and content,
2. The definitions of inappropriate and malicious content, and
3. Potential for abuse and loopholes in the Act.
Here's a link to get you started (note the date, it's 4 months old):
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Opinion | There is an inspector in my email
And here's a post from vishalrao who picked up the issue, but the discussion faltered and failed to amplify it. It's the only post in the whole forum that talks about it, I hadn't picked it up till somebody posted the Telegraph article on Facebook, and that was today.
http://www.techenclave.com/1117255-post8.html
There seems to be some media noise about the issue recently, but it's surprising that it missed almost all of us completely. Are we being blindsided? Seems the new amendments are not yet published, either on the government portals which seem to be carrying the last amendments from 2006, but not the ones passed in April (or whenever).
Any legal experts here who would know about this? And any comments?