India’s “so-called lawful interception monitoring systems” are helping create a “backdoor” that allows “Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to snoop” on citizens as “part of the country’s growing surveillance regime”, according to a Financial Times report.
The report states that the government mandates that telecommunication networks install hardware “to search, copy and pump that data to Indian security agencies on demand, with the help of AI and data analytics” – a situation allegedly conducive for firms that sell private surveillance tools.
