India plans its own net snoop system

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    30 November 2009

    On the anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Indian government has announced its own version of the UK's Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) - a massive expansion of communications surveillance for the internet age.

    A pilot of the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS) will begin by June next year, communications minister Gurudas Kamat said on Thursday.

    Like IMP, CMS will see a network of monitoring probes inserted throughout the country's fixed line and wireless communications networks.