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Indian Gvernment Forcing Cybercafés to Install Keyloggers

Jacqui Cheng writes on ARS Technica:

The roughly 500 cybercafés in Mumbai, India, will soon have police-sanctioned keylogging software installed on their machines in the name of fighting terrorism. The software will track everything entered into web forms, chat rooms, e-mail, and more, and report it back to the government. Mumbai police say that cybercafé owners must agree to the installation of the software or else they will lose their licenses.

The president of India's Foundation for Information Security and Technology, Vijay Mukhi, told India-based newspaper Mid Day late last month that the decision was based on the fact that terrorists look to hide their Internet activities by using cybercafés instead of their home computers.

posted by Fergie @ 9/10/2007 10:59:00 AM