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500 email accounts under lens : MHA
Seven Sisters Post | Rajeev Bhattacharyya | Guwahati (Sept 8):
If 9,000 phones are under surveillance of intelligence agencies every month, how many email accounts do you think would be under the scanner? Much less than you would think. In reply to a question under RTI, the home ministry said that only around 500 email accounts are put under observation every month by the different security agencies that include the Intelligence Bureau, Military Intelligence and Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
The list is evaluated and submitted for approval of the home secretary every month. A highly placed retired intelligence official expressed “surprise” over the revelation by the home ministry.
The figure given by the ministry does not include the snooping done by the special branches of the state police across the country. Instead of the home secretary, these departments have to get their proposals approved by the respective chief secretaries of the states.
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