Allowing the social media
companies like Facebook and Twitter to bring their servers into the
country, might pose a serious security risk.
In a statement made available to Techworm, the Minister for Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that “The
government has not decided to get servers of popular social networking
sites, like hike, Facebook, Twitter etc established within the country.”
He also added that allowing the social media
companies like Facebook and Twitter to bring their servers into the
country, might pose a serious security risk.
Stressing that the security outfits in India go
through a lot of difficulty to process the encrypted data provided by
most tracking and surveillance agencies.
He also said that the government has asked telecom
and internet service providers to present legal interceptions and
monitoring infrastructure to the security agencies for various social
media services like WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat and Skype.
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