Getting more paranoid

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/11/2013

Predictably, Google's eighth transparency report reveals that content requests by the Indian government has gone up by 90 percent from the preceding six months for the Jan-June 2013 period. But the surprise is that, post-PRISM revelations, Google has disclosed US government requests for breaking out emergency disclosures, wiretap orders, pen registers etc, the disclosure of which is disallowed under US laws, including the infamous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.