Soon Govt will keep track of where each mobile phone user is - Indian Express

At first Google and Yahoo. Now the cell phone companies.

Emphasis mine.

The problem is not about tracking per se. It's about the how your identity can be misused. For example, UID is collecting huge biometric data and despite their claims, one never knows how it is meant to be kept secure.

Secondly, the mobile phones have been allowed to proliferate, Blackberries forced to give up their encryption keys, tracking has become ubiquitous. Specially, when each of the mobile phone purchase can now retrospectively be tied to your specific identity.

I haven't done anything wrong but then why does the Government need to spend our money


http://www.indianexpress.com/news/soon-govt-will-keep-track-of-where-each-mobile-phone-user-is/912511/

The government is looking to track all mobile phone users.

Beginning May 31, operators will have to provide the Department of Telecommunications real-time details of users' locations in the form of latitude and longitude as per amendments made to their licences.

Documents obtained by The Indian Express show that details shall initially be provided for mobile numbers specified by the government. Within three years, service providers will have to provide information on locations of all users.

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The planned increase in mobile phone surveillance comes as the DoT sets up a Centralised Monitoring System (CMS) to tap mobile phones instantly. “In the existing system, secrecy can be easily compromised due to manual intervention while in CMS these functions will be performed on secured electronic links,” Sachin Pilot, MoS, Communications and IT, told Parliament recently.