People's privacy at stake: Mamata

July 02, 2013 22:25

Claiming that people' privacy will be at stake with the UPA government developing the Centralised Monitoring System (CMS), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today asked the Centre whether the move was to target the opposition.

Quoting a media report, Banerjee alleged CMS would enable the government and its agencies unfettered access to eavesdrop.

In a Facebook post, she claimed the government through the programme would have access "in real time to any mobile and fixed line phone conversation, SMS, fax, website visit, social media usage, Internet search data and emails, including partially written emails in draft folders of target accounts."

"Experts feel these capabilities could be as lethal and intrusive as the highly controversial PRISM project," she said referring to the US' National Security Agency monitoring data of mobile phone users' case, leaked by whistle-blower Edward

Snowden.

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