US spy agency actively monitoring messages, emails in India: Report

[ChinaToday]

NEW DELHI: A report in a UK newspaper claims that India is among the top five countries most extensively monitored by the National Security Agency (NSA), a US government agency tasked with foreign surveillance.

The Guardian reported on Sunday that in March this year, the NSA recorded 6.3 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks in India, placing it fifth on the list of most extensively monitored countries. Iran topped the list with 14 billion pieces of intelligence collected from it. Pakistan was third with 13.5 billion, Jordan was third with 12.7 billion and Egypt was fourth with 7.6 billion.

"In March 2013 the agency collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide," reported the newspaper.

It added, "NSA has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from... (the paper) has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks."

The report is latest in the series of revelations that detail the top-secret surveillance and data monitoring programs run by NSA.

Earlier, reports detailed how NSA was using a programme called PRISM to access data generated by users of nine US-based technology companies. According to a few PowerPoint slides allegedly leaked by an NSA official, nine technology companies - Google, AOL, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook, YouTube and PalTalk - were providing the US government easy access to user data.

All companies named in the reports have denied being part of anything called PRISM. On Friday Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page categorically denied giving direct access to user data to US sleuths.

But US president Barack Obama had tacitly acknowledged NSA surveillance programmes aimed at non-US citizens. "You can't have a hundred percent security and also then have a hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience. You know, we're going to have to make some choices as a society," he told reporters in the US.

On its report on Boundless Informant, the UK newspaper noted that the focus was on meta data instead of actual content of emails or calls. "The focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of an email or instant message," it noted.

US spy agency actively monitoring messages, emails in India: Report - The Times of India

 

[Psyops]

India is a client state of the US. So I'm pretty sure the Indian regime has given permission to the US to do this.

 

[omkar]

^^^
Your country at no 2 spot with more than double the numbers of pieces of information gathered, we are at 5 even if our netizen population is nearly 8 times more than your's so what does tell you ??

 

[Srinivas]

This is no less than Hacking attacks from China, Both USA and China are stealing data from India.

India should publish a book on this and also raise an alarm on this.

 

[kawaraj]

Sadly.......

 

[JonAsad]

almighty amrika can do any thing- whatever he wants to india or their people- atleast pdf indians dont bother at all-

 

[Tshering22]

This is no less than Hacking attacks from China, Both USA and China are stealing data from India.

India should publish a book on this and also raise an alarm on this.

Are you kidding me? Publish a book? Who will do that? If your answer is "the government" my question is "what government". Tell me, after Indira and to some extent Vajpayee regime, who has been even remotely decisive in our defence policies? Since its coming to power UPA in 2004, we have only met disasters in the name of increased incursions from all the hostile neighbouring countries, appeasement of jihadists, promoting radical elements against national interest in the name of a so-called secularism (look at the kinds of MPs and MLAs that some parties have; hint), backing away from a strategic disaster aversion opportunity in Maldives, increased demographic warfare in Assam and West Bengal, beheading of our soldier at Pak-border, audacious attacks and incursions deep into Indian territory at Tibet-border...and these are only feelers compared to what may actually be happening at the borders.

Internally, we have our CRPF jawans slaughtered at the hands of those deranged lunatics called Maoists where all limited of civilized behaviour and combat principles have been forsaken, every loony group in remote parts of the country continues to prosper with government inaction, with the exception of ULFA which caused a rift between the senior cadres... the only accidental achievement by this regime.



Forget publishing a book, we need to overhaul our defence policies and remove those who are currently hampering it.

We have a whole host of threats around our country and are ruled by a regime that augments these threats rather than crushing them decisively.

 

[Srinivas]

Are you kidding me? Publish a book? Who will do that? If your answer is "the government" my question is "what government". Tell me, after Indira and to some extent Vajpayee regime, who has been even remotely decisive in our defence policies? Since its coming to power UPA in 2004, we have only met disasters in the name of increased incursions from all the hostile neighbouring countries, appeasement of jihadists, promoting radical elements against national interest in the name of a so-called secularism (look at the kinds of MPs and MLAs that some parties have; hint), backing away from a strategic disaster aversion opportunity in Maldives, increased demographic warfare in Assam and West Bengal, beheading of our soldier at Pak-border, audacious attacks and incursions deep into Indian territory at Tibet-border...and these are only feelers compared to what may actually be happening at the borders.

Internally, we have our CRPF jawans slaughtered at the hands of those deranged lunatics called Maoists where all limited of civilized behaviour and combat principles have been forsaken, every loony group in remote parts of the country continues to prosper with government inaction, with the exception of ULFA which caused a rift between the senior cadres... the only accidental achievement by this regime.



Forget publishing a book, we need to overhaul our defence policies and remove those who are currently hampering it.

We have a whole host of threats around our country and are ruled by a regime that augments these threats rather than crushing them decisively.

I agree with you, but these are confusing times, on one hand we have rising China which is 8 trillion economy and on the other hand we have unreliable USA.

Both are threats and we have to be careful.

 

[Infinity]

almighty amrika can do any thing- whatever he wants to india or their people- atleast pdf indians dont bother at all-

But they don't attack us with drones.......................

 

[vK_man]

^^^
Your country at no 2 spot with more than double the numbers of pieces of information gathered, we are at 5 even if our netizen population is nearly 8 times more than your's so what does tell you ??

Pakistan is on no.2 , not China .Check the details of the scandal carefully.

Are you kidding me? Publish a book? Who will do that? If your answer is "the government" my question is "what government". Tell me, after Indira and to some extent Vajpayee regime, who has been even remotely decisive in our defence policies? Since its coming to power UPA in 2004, we have only met disasters in the name of increased incursions from all the hostile neighbouring countries, appeasement of jihadists, promoting radical elements against national interest in the name of a so-called secularism (look at the kinds of MPs and MLAs that some parties have; hint), backing away from a strategic disaster aversion opportunity in Maldives, increased demographic warfare in Assam and West Bengal, beheading of our soldier at Pak-border, audacious attacks and incursions deep into Indian territory at Tibet-border...and these are only feelers compared to what may actually be happening at the borders.

Internally, we have our CRPF jawans slaughtered at the hands of those deranged lunatics called Maoists where all limited of civilized behaviour and combat principles have been forsaken, every loony group in remote parts of the country continues to prosper with government inaction, with the exception of ULFA which caused a rift between the senior cadres... the only accidental achievement by this regime.



Forget publishing a book, we need to overhaul our defence policies and remove those who are currently hampering it.

We have a whole host of threats around our country and are ruled by a regime that augments these threats rather than crushing them decisively.

If the regime was not stealing tribal lands and attempting ethnic cleansing on the tribals ,the maoists would have never flourished. India needs overhaul .The politicans are such that they will leave india to the west and their swiss banks the moment the heat gets high.

 

[GoodBoy]

almighty amrika can do any thing- whatever he wants to india or their people- atleast pdf indians dont bother at all-

Replace "India" with "Pakistan" and it makes PERFECT SENSE.

But they don't attack us with drones.......................

Thats's just one part how Amighty US controls Pakistan.

 

[Genesis]

^^^
Your country at no 2 spot with more than double the numbers of pieces of information gathered, we are at 5 even if our netizen population is nearly 8 times more than your's so what does tell you ??

why are you making such an obvious lie...

List of countries by number of Internet users - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

yea i know wiki but easy enough to find else where too.

 

[BATMAN]

US Agency Collected Second Highest Amount of Digital Data From Pakistan

 

[omkar]

why are you making such an obvious lie...

List of countries by number of Internet users - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

yea i know wiki but easy enough to find else where too.

I was responding to that Pakistani false flagger as you can see in reports name of China is mentioned nowhere.

 

[JayAtl]

NEW DELHI: A report in a UK newspaper claims that India is among the top five countries most extensively monitored by the National Security Agency (NSA), a US government agency tasked with foreign surveillance.

IT does not take too much to fool the majority ignorant masses here.

A simple article hyping up an ignorant choice of words and we have PDF members all calming to be the first ones to be dropped on their heads.

First much of the claims made by the guardian have shown to be false. i.e. all companies in the alleged PRISM program have come out to say they have absolutely not been a part of any such nonsense as claimed in the prsim leak. These are private companies , huge companies and have no dog in the hunt.

Second , for the US to monitor all India's communication ' IN" India, it would have had to either have direct access or it has hacked up your entire network. NOTE: Not a single other country(s) govt have charged the US to have done so.

WHAT THEY DO IS collect inbound data, limited but still inbound to the US and outbound from the US.

FAR FREAKING DIFFERENT THAN what the comments we read above!