SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS HUB

About:

• Earlier this year, Union Government proposed the creation of Social Media Communications Hub.
  • Under this, government would have tracked track all social media platforms — Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn etc.
    
    
  • This would have allowed the government to try to analyse the public sentiment towards various government policies announcements.
    
    
  
  
  
• Opposition to this move by Experts and Supreme Court:
  • If every tweet and WhatsApp message is monitored, then India will transform to a “surveillance state”.
    
    
  • The proposed move is unconstitutional for being contrary to the Fundamental right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech and Expression.