Lucknow Safe City Project: A look into the proposed surveillance architecture
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Lucknow Safe City Project: A look into the proposed surveillance architecture
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Lucknow Safe City Project: UP government wants to keep an eye on rooftops via drones
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Not long before he was elected as India’s prime minister in 2014, Narendra Modi spoke of his dreams of a “digital India”, where “access to information knows no barriers”.
But this week, unprecedented barriers on every form of digital content, from online news to social media and films and television on streaming platforms, came into force, making India’s digital realm one of the most heavily regulated of any major democracy.
The series of sweeping new IT rules bring almost everything that happens online under a mechanism of government regulation, including giving the government powers to remove “objectionable” online content and erasing people’s right to privacy on social media and encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp.