Govt. to ask Google and Skype to provide access
September 02, 2010
Source: MM Networks
By: MediaMughals
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The data travelling through Google, Skype, VPN and a few other networks is not accessible by security agencies in the country. Skype provides software that lets more than a half billion users make telephone and video calls over the Internet. While, Google is a popular search engine which offers email, online chatting and owns social networking website Orkut. |