I have no problem with one country working to tighten the reigns on cybercrime just so long as it does not interfere with the day to day well being of those such a law affects.

BANGALORE, INDIA - India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh instructed government officials Wednesday to hasten the amendments to the country’s Information Technology Act of 2000. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in Delhi has for the last two years been pressing the government to amend the act to include additional clauses that tighten provisions relating to data security and privacy.

The prime minister called a meeting Wednesday with Kiran Karnik, president of NASSCOM, and with government officials to review steps taken by the government and by industry to deal with the challenge of cybercrime and to ensure data secrecy in the business data processing industry, according to a statement Wednesday from the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) in Delhi.

The meeting was held in the context of a recent “media sting operation” involving an employee of a private data processing company, where allegations of breach of data secrecy have been leveled, added the PIB statement. Indian professionals have built for themselves an enviable global reputation through hard work, dedication and commitment, and the occasional misguided acts of some individuals should not be allowed to damage the high reputation of all professionals, Singh said, according to the statement. [Read the rest]