Know why Facebook, Twitter will not have servers in India!

Social media giants Facebook and Twitter will not have servers in India- or at least for the time being. The NaMo government, however, is regularly interacting with the social networking sites to address issues relating to unlawful content on the internet.

"The government has not decided to get servers of popular social networking sites, like hike, Facebook, Twitter etc established within the country," said Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in the Lok Sabha.

According to a PTI report, Cabinet minister Prasad noted that the Centre was actively interacting with all the stakeholders including social media providers to addressing all issues especially those connected to the handling of unlawful content on the internet. He pointed out that the security agencies have been facing challenges while decoding encrypted communications that are provided by these service providers.

“At times these services may also used by anti-national and criminal elements, which pose a security threat,” Union minister Prasad stated.
The government has also made it mandatory for all telecom service providers and internet service providers to provide lawful interception and monitoring facilities to the security agencies fo services such as Whatsapp, Viber, Hike among others.

"...there are multifarious aspects involved in security enforcement agencies getting such encrypted communication in readable format such as technical, international relationship, legal and regulatory policy, commercial and security requirements etc," he said.