All computers now under govt. watch

[Desmond]

Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance : technology

That's some really scary stuff.

The failure of "I have nothing to hide" is that mostly those people will say this who either believe that the govt. is operating in good faith or people who are just apathetic to the whole thing. The govt. is not run by saints but by people who crave money, power and influence and they will use every tool at their disposal to do so, including mass surveillance.

 

[Anorion]

Okay, was discussing this with someone
Apparently, the bit where they say no new powers have been introduced, ("This notification does not confer any new powers") that's a bare faced lie
The IT act allowed interception of only information or data that was transmitted and received, this allows for monitoring of data that has been generated or stored as well
Cross checked with the original act, and not sure if it checks out according to the definitions

new notification link for reference

 

[whitestar_999]

Page 5 24(2)(v) "accessing stored information from computer resources for the purpose of"

To be frank this isn't even debatable,it is simply illogical to assume that such an act can even be made in the first place if it doesn't even have provisions for accessing "stored data".