INDIA AMONG TOP 5 COUNTRIES THE US SPIES ON Political fallout of US surveillance continued on Tuesday, as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attacked it in the UN. In India, The Hindu carried revelations of US spying
WHAT IS THE NSA? The US National Security Agency, which gathers information on US' adversaries and protects its security information from theft, is in the midst of a storm for its controversial spy programme, PRISM since Edward Snowden revealed its extensive spying on its own citizens and other countries
WHO WAS SPIED ON AND HOW? "In the overall list of countries spied on by NSA programs, India stands at fifth place, with billions of pieces of information plucked from its telephone and internet networks just in 30 days." GLENN GREENWALD Reporter, The Guardian, who broke the Snowden story, in his column on Monday
4 kinds of electronic snooping devices used: where they were used INDIAN EMBASSY: LIFESAVER Permanent Mission facilitates imaging of hard drive of computers
of India at the United Nations
Chancery building – 2107, Massachusetts Avenue
HIGHLANDS makes digital collection from implants
VAGRANT
(Houses the Indian Ambassador, Defence Attaches)
collects data of open computer screens
MAGNETIC a collection of digital signals
Located between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, 43rd Street, Manhattan
INDIAN EMBASSY: Annex – 2536, Massachusetts Avenue (Houses an Isro office) and also by PRISM
WHY Access to vast quantities of internet traffic, e-mails, telephone and office conversations and official documents stored digitally Sources: The Hindu newspaper, and columns of Glenn Greenwald