Internet is free and a sign of empowerment for many youth. But the big question: are all our movement online is being monitored? As an online enthusiasts if your answer is in positive then you are wrong. All your online activities are being monitored and collected.

This fact could be established after a reported launched by the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) titled India’s Surveillance State at the Internet Governance Forum, currently underway in Istanbul.
Those who have a look at this report confirmed that the state has put in number of Lawful Interception and Monitoring systems to keep an eye on people who spend time online.

And monitoring such people is easy. Moreover, as internet penetration increases, surveillance too will increase. R.S. Sharma, secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeiTY), Government of India, said: “Indians without access to internet form 25% of the people in the world left out of the digital world. So it was the priority of GoI to attend sessions where we could pick up ideas on how to bridge this gap. By December 2016 we aim to bring broadband connectivity to all panchayats.”

The report also throws light to the system adopted by the government to spy on its online citizens. It is understood that an unknown number of Lawful Interception and Monitoring (LIM) systems are installed in India’s communication networks, helping officials to not only collect users’ communications data and meta-data but also to analyse them.