Government wants to read your tweets, Facebook posts

New Delhi : Beware of what you put in your Facebook messages or your tweets. Your friends and followers may not be the only ones reading them. Chances are government sleuths would be vetting these private messages. 

This follows a home ministry directive to the department of telecom, asking it to "ensure effective monitoring of Twitter and Facebook". While "effective monitoring" has not been defined, sources said the MHA's intention is complete surveillance of the sites. This means not only does the government want to keep an eye on tweets and wall posts that are in the public domain but also the content you share only with your friends.

Minister of state for communication and information technology Milind Deora said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha last week that DoT had received a letter from the MHA asking it to monitor networking websites in order to "strengthen the cyber security paraphernalia".

His statement was in response to a question from MP NK Singh.

A senior government official said the home ministry's directive asked DoT to facilitate access to all data in social networking sites for its intelligence agencies.

Sunil Abraham, executive director of Centre for Internet and Society said these "blanket surveillance practices" are counterproductive.

"People advocating greater surveillance don't understand how the web works. In some cases, if there is evidence, targeted monitoring can be done but if government wants to go through each tweet and every status update, it's just waste of money and resources. Agencies involved in monitoring can do better work by focusing on core issues. This will also save law-abiding citizens from unnecessary harassment," said Abraham.

Some Facebook and Twitter content is already under the surveillance of the National Technical Research Organization. Deora confirmed this, telling Parliament that "telecom service providers (already) provide facilities for lawful interception and monitoring of communication flowing through their network including communications from social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter".

He said in cases where data is encrypted by websites like Twitter, the department works with the parties concerned to obtain access. Twitter and Facebook don't share private information on their servers without a court order. Twitter also has a policy of informing the user whose information is being shared with security agencies.

India has in the recent months sought access to data from internet service providers as well as companies like Research In Motion, which sells BlackBerry phones capable of encrypted emails and messaging.

In April the government notified a new set of IT rules, virtually making intermediaries like internet service providers, web hosts and websites like responsible for any wrongdoings on their networks. The rules were widely criticized by privacy activists.

Law enforcement agencies across the world monitor social networking sites but in most cases it is selective. A few days ago, Pentagon said that it was looking to monitor websites like Twitter in order to identify terror threats as well as to keep a tab on trends, unrest and events like popular revolts in the Arab world. Darpa, a research body under the US department of defence, said it had earmarked $42m to fund research into monitoring social networks. 


Source : Times Of India


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Facebook Vs Twitter

Here are a few of the key findings represented in the infographic, which was based on data from a Barracuda Networks survey as well as an analysis from Razorfish and otherdemographic breakdowns from a number of sources (although the data on Twitter in particular is a little old — the service now has 190 million users)

So you decide now !! Facebook or Twitter ? or both ;)


In the end, both Twitter and Facebook are simply communication tools; both will continue to evolve and morph as users find new ways to extract value and either network may or may become a long term winner in the rapidly evolving social networking space. Ultimately, the fact remains to be seen whether either application has a profitable, scalable and sustainable business model or whether the exit strategy is simply to be acquired.

As we learned in the search space, consolidation will eventually prevail. Unless they can find a way to turn all those eyeballs into profits, social networks will lose relevance. It does seem obvious that the venture capitalists are betting they will not only continue to enjoy tremendous growth but will also successfully monetize all that traffic.

But, will either Twitter or Facebook become the next Google or will they fade into the rear view mirror of technological and social evolution? What do you think?

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Protect your Facebook , Twitter , Email accounts from Hackers !!

Now a days everybody uses Email accounts and social networking like Facebook , Twitter etc . . Lots of personal Information is associated with such social networking sites ..  So this is important to protect such data from Hackers . . Because Hackers ( Black Hat Hackers ) always try to get others important data , information and use it for wrong purpose . . So please always try to be safe from hackers . . 

Below i am telling u simple steps which you should follow :- 


Never share your password to anyone.

1) Don't use password as your nick name, phone no. or pet names.
2) Use the combination of lower case, uper case, numbers and special characters for passwords.
3) Never click on any suspected link comes in a mail from unknown sender
4) Never give your passwords to any 3rd party websites for any service.
5) Use different passwords for different accounts.
6) Check the website url every time before login. EX: check url to be http://www.facebook.com before login to face account. Never login to website such as http://www.facebook.otherwebsit.com ( Most Important )
7) Use secondary email address and mobile phone numbers with secret questions for account recovery.
8) Never use any javascript code in url while login to any of your email or any other website account. It may be a cookie stealer script.
9) use latest antivirus and antimalware softwares with firewall on.

These are some things which you should follow for safe surfing on Internet

I hope you like it . . Any queries just contact me anytime !!

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