here the audio bbc bangla parikrama
http://www.sachalayatan.com/audio/by/title/bbc_bangla_parikrama more http://www.sachalayatan.com/rezwan/9222 Rezwan wrote: > This current action is apparently carried out under the purview of an > amendment [of 2006] to BTRC Act, 2001 which basically gives blanket > wiretapping/monitoring powers to law enforcing agencies. BTRC Act 2001: > Amendment 97: a, b, c. > > Although this amendment contradicts one of BTRC’s prime directives: “To > ensure protection of the privacy of telecommunication.” (BTRC Act, 2001. Para > 30(1)(f)) > > And implementing this via the ISPs under duress instead of a separate > monitoring cell raises lot of questions. > > BBC Bangla Service picked up this story in its daily Parikrama of its > evening show on October 4, 2007. You can listen to the specific portion here. > > Transcript: > > Headline: Authorities in Bangladesh have taken measures to strengthen > control on internet services provided. > > Bangladesh Telecommunication regulatory commission (BTRC) has taken some > measures to monitor the Internet usage after a meeting with the Internet > Service Provider (ISP) Association of Bangladesh. BTRC has also decided to > create a database of the internet users of Bangladesh. > > The ISP association’s general secretary Russel T Mahmood tells BBC Bangla: > “The most important thing is security. You know that people are threatening > with emails, using email for various things. If these are not controlled from > a central point you cannot trace them. The whole thing is to establish a > control mechanism. We ISPs have corporate clients as well as individual > clients. They have sought the details of these clients from us. How much > bandwidth they uses, what are their IPs, what are their usage patterns these > are basically the requirement from us. What we can fathom is that this is to > monitor and prevent people from doing anything outside the legal boundary > with bandwidth purchased from ISPs.” > > More details and backgrounds: > > http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/10/05/internet-user-profiling-and-surveillance-process-initiated-in-bangladesh/ > > Thanks & regards, > > Rezwan > Global Voices Online > > Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Omi Azad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anyone know anything about this ? >> >> Crackdown on internet users in Bangladesh >> An E-Bangladesh exclusive >> >> Thursday October 04 2007 17:22:07 PM BDT >> > > [ ... ] > > What kind of news is this? I am really thundered and surprised and also more > than these feelings.... what is going one?????????? > > Zico >
