In an effort to stop terrorism the Mumbai police department has decided to grant itself the ability to monitor the keystrokes of anyone using a public terminal at 500 cybercafes. The legislation referenced is the Bombay Police Act which allows the police to fine any cybercafes that do not comply.
Luckily the National Vice President of the People Union of Civil Liberty had encouraging words for those cybercafes that thought this might be an intrusion of privacy, "As long as personal computers are not being monitored. If monitoring is restricted to public computers, it is in the interest of security."
That seems logical and in no way a slippery slope... especially for those people to poor to own a computer... or travelers...
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