DoT has made some regulations in 2009 after Mumbai and Ahmedabad bomb blasts, which basically translates to THREE key *technical requirements:
(1) Identify each Wifi user activity discreetly by MAC-Address or Device-Identifier, User-ID, KYC-Information, Mobile No. (this is mapped by service provider to your ID and address) etc
(2) Storing the above user and device *connection records securely for a period of at least 1 year without tampering
(3) Turn over these records to law enforcement agencies (like Cyber Crime Departments) if they come asking for it
The above are just fingerprints at the crime scene, not clinching evidence of any user's culpability in the eyes of law. We fully support all three requirements and therefore assess ourselves to be fully compliant with the country's regulatory norms. The above information [(1), (2)] will be provided ONLY to law enforcement (Cyber Crime Police Department) on production of search/seize warrant and will not be shared with any user under any circumstances.
The regulatory work on Public WiFi in India is still a work in progress with sector regulator TRAI and DOT making some new proposals in 2017-19 such as PM-WANI, but the mainstream Wifi OEM support is missing (and consequently not supported) and therefore long term success of such initiative is questionable
(3) Turn over these records to law enforcement agencies (like Cyber Crime Departments) if they come asking for it
The above are just fingerprints at the crime scene, not clinching evidence of any user's culpability in the eyes of law. We fully support all three requirements and therefore assess ourselves to be fully compliant with the country's regulatory norms. The above information [(1), (2)] will be provided ONLY to law enforcement (Cyber Crime Police Department) on production of search/seize warrant and will not be shared with any user under any circumstances.
The regulatory work on Public WiFi in India is still a work in progress with sector regulator TRAI and DOT making some new proposals in 2017-19 such as PM-WANI, but the mainstream Wifi OEM support is missing (and consequently not supported) and therefore long term success of such initiative is questionable
Please make a note of two things:
(a) Association cannot (regulatory limitation) and will not (despite having basic forensic skills) carry out any cyber-crime investigation in normal case as we are not classified as law enforcement and eligible to seek any information from Internet Services and Service Providers. Please approach Cyber Crime Departments of Police in such matters. We will only aid the law enforcement to extent technically feasible and permissible under law
(b) Our Wifi hotspots and networking infrastructure does not carry out any surveillance of user activities. Their is no identification, tracking, or storage of any personal information such as browsing history, passwords, banking transactions, messages sent/received, voice calls records, etc made using our hotspots by any user.
(a) Association cannot (regulatory limitation) and will not (despite having basic forensic skills) carry out any cyber-crime investigation in normal case as we are not classified as law enforcement and eligible to seek any information from Internet Services and Service Providers. Please approach Cyber Crime Departments of Police in such matters. We will only aid the law enforcement to extent technically feasible and permissible under law
(b) Our Wifi hotspots and networking infrastructure does not carry out any surveillance of user activities. Their is no identification, tracking, or storage of any personal information such as browsing history, passwords, banking transactions, messages sent/received, voice calls records, etc made using our hotspots by any user.
In any case, if you still have a trust deficit about your privacy and not convinced with the above, please use VPN services to encrypt all your data streams, as you would do with any ISP Broadband connection, Cybercafe, Airport/mall/Coffee-shop WiFi OR you may just avoid using our Hotspots altogether.
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