Daily News and Analysis [India]
by staff
10/23/05

Now don't jump up and get nervous, but at this very moment you could be under surveillance. Someone may be watching you, your phone may be tapped, or someone may have hacked into your email. Or maybe when you went to the milk booth this morning, your movements were captured by a hidden camera. Inquiries, investigations, and sources have revealed that a staggeringly high number of telephones are tapped in the country, often without authorisation. Similar illegal activities, mostly by agencies of the state, are underway to hack into your email, monitor your Internet chats, and record your movements. These intrusions, signs of a growing police state, will only increase as terrorism remains the biggest worry of governments, even though such steps may not be the most effective way of checking the faceless, stateless enemy...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp