{"id":1911,"date":"2018-07-14T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:05","slug":"setting-social-media-hub-is-like-creating-a-surveillance-state-observes-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/setting-social-media-hub-is-like-creating-a-surveillance-state-observes-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting social media \u201chub\u201d is like creating a surveillance state, observes SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u00a0of India <span data-term=\"goog_211021633\">on Friday<\/span>\u00a0asked the Centre whether it wants to create a surveillance state by tapping citizens\u2019 WhatsApp messages and directed to get back with response\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_211021634\">within two weeks<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>While hearing a petition filed by Trinamool Congress lawmaker from West Bengal\u2019s Karimpur, Mahua Moitra, against the government\u2019s plan to set up a social media hub, a three-judge bench of\u00a0Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud issued a notice to the Centre and sought Attorney General K.K. Venugopal\u2019s assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing for Moitra, senior advocate A.M. Singhvi said the Centre had issued a request for proposal and the tender would be floated on\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_211021635\">August 20<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in January and April this year, Moitra filed a writ petition in the apex court after ministry of information and broadcasting announced the setting up of a social media hub that would collect and analyse digital and social media content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court directed to get back with response within two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}