Sleuths on drive to track Rahul-baiting on net
NEW DELHI | 24th Jun
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Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
ndian investigating authorities are unhappy with their US
counterparts for not providing details of users of internet protocol
(IP) addresses that were used to spread calumny against Congress general
secretary Rahul Gandhi. There are nearly a dozen IP addresses traced
back to the United States, which Indian investigators want to track
down. The Sunday Guardian has learnt that of those eight
pertain to individuals who have posted highly defamatory comments on
Rahul Gandhi on assorted social media sites. In October last year, a
page titled "Know the reality about Rahul And Sonia Gandhi"
containing questionable and defamatory comments about members of the
Nehru-Gandhi family surfaced on Orkut, a social media network owned by
Google.
A draft framework of this proposed information exchange treaty prepared by the Indian side advocates much heavy-handedness against cyber miscreants. It calls for the right to search and seizure of information processing systems, and computer data; rendering illegal material inaccessible; directing service providers to comply with special obligations, taking into account the problems caused by encryption; and interception of content data. Under the treaty India wants the US to provide subscriber information from any service provider. The subscriber details would also include the user's identity, postal address, telephone number, and billing and payment information of the suspects. Some analysts however point out that the US is unlikely to be party to a treaty that is skewed against freedom of speech and individual privacy. http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/sleuths-on-drive-to-track-rahul-baiting-on-net |