Cyber Snooping: USA and India
Cyber Snooping
Snooping is unauthorized access to another person’s or company’s data. More sophisticated snooping uses software programs to remotely monitor activity on a computer network or network device, including emails and phone calls.
There have been multiple instances of the U.S.A. snooping on India, among other countries, and according to a 2010 classified document leaked by former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Washington Post, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was among a handful of political organizations a U.S. court allowed the intelligence agency to spy on.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, addressing a joint press briefing with Kerry after the Fifth India-US Strategic Dialogue, said that she conveyed to Kerry that the people of India were very agitated over US surveillance activities. "I also said if we consider each other friends then a friendly country spying on another is unacceptable."
The scandal broke in early June 2013 when the Guardian newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans. That report was followed by revelations in both the Washington Post and Guardian that the NSA tapped directly into the servers of nine internet firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to track online communication in a surveillance programme known as Prism.
Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, followed by Pakistan with 13.5 billion bits. India was fifth with 6.3 billion bits.
A new multi-agency body called the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) is expected to carry out real-time assessment of cyber security threats and send out alerts for action to law enforcement agencies.
"This new structure provides for multi-layered protection, with responsibility allocated to various stakeholders, including critical ministries like defense, home and IT. Officials were
Snooping is unauthorized access to another person’s or company’s data. More sophisticated snooping uses software programs to remotely monitor activity on a computer network or network device, including emails and phone calls.
There have been multiple instances of the U.S.A. snooping on India, among other countries, and according to a 2010 classified document leaked by former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Washington Post, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was among a handful of political organizations a U.S. court allowed the intelligence agency to spy on.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, addressing a joint press briefing with Kerry after the Fifth India-US Strategic Dialogue, said that she conveyed to Kerry that the people of India were very agitated over US surveillance activities. "I also said if we consider each other friends then a friendly country spying on another is unacceptable."
The scandal broke in early June 2013 when the Guardian newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans. That report was followed by revelations in both the Washington Post and Guardian that the NSA tapped directly into the servers of nine internet firms including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to track online communication in a surveillance programme known as Prism.
Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, followed by Pakistan with 13.5 billion bits. India was fifth with 6.3 billion bits.
A new multi-agency body called the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC) is expected to carry out real-time assessment of cyber security threats and send out alerts for action to law enforcement agencies.
"This new structure provides for multi-layered protection, with responsibility allocated to various stakeholders, including critical ministries like defense, home and IT. Officials were