Spying-snooping-scrutiny
Edward Snowden’s expose caused international outrage for
NSA infringing on individual privacy, and on friends and foes alike at
governmental and public levels. USA’s NATO allies were vocal in their
feigned outrage at the revelation that their cyberspace had been
secretly invaded by NSA, even their embassies bugged, and data mining
performed on their official and private citizens’ communications. True
to this writer’s prediction that “there is unlikely to be even a squeak
on this sovereignty issue” [Ref.3], India, far from even feigning
outrage, has sought to play down USA’s presidentially-sanctioned spying,
snooping and surveillance by terming it as “scrutiny” of India’s
cyberspace. However, even “scrutiny”, the mildest of the terms [Note 2],
is objectionable because it impinges on India’s sovereignty.................................................................................................................................................................................
Surveillance and security
Surveillance by USA on India’s leaders and private citizens
is bad enough, but India is preparing for its own internal
surveillance. Surveillance assumes that the subject surveilled is a
suspected spy or a criminal [Note 2]. This assumption for general public
surveillance in a democracy is unwarranted because the general public
becomes “suspect”. Surveillance of criminal suspects (targetted
surveillance) is standard police and intelligence practice and, in a
democratic society, is done with appropriate established, well-defined
checks and safeguards, so that the power of surveillance is not misused
to gain advantage or blackmail or settle scores for political or
partisan purposes. Even with checks and balances in place, targetted
surveillance has led to innumerable cases of staged or false
“encounters” resulting in extra-judicial killings based on questionable
intelligence reports, mere suspicion or motivated political orders.
for further details pleas read------http://www.kractivist.org/india-open-secrets-effects-on-sovereignty-and-democracy-uid-sundayreading/
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