A new law has come into effect whereby anyone using an internet cafe has to provide full name, address, phone number and number of a photo identification card. It is now illegal to open an email account under a pseudonym. This is complete destruction of privacy and will no doubt will be used to hunt down anyone the sarkari fellows do not like as has already happened in China. No doubt they will claim that this is being done for our protection and to track down terrorists and criminals. Nearly all terrorists operating in India are under control of Pakistani intelligence and surely can open any number of email accounts abroad. Anyway they usually have large numbers of false papers and can change identity at will. They can easily obtain passports in India by bribing the same sarkari fellows. In the Bombay blasts case a police officer was convicted of allowing a truck full of explosives to pass for a relatively small amount of money. Clearly this is a way of surreptitously obtaining data on innocent and respectable citizens. To be fair India is not the only country which is spying on its citizens. The US has been doing it for years and is also snooping on telephone an internet traffic of the citizens of its allies. The UK is proposing to have a DNA record of all its citizens. All the more frightening because the British have lost personal details of 25 million people which was contained on two disks and now opens the way for identity fraud. No wonder people all over the world trust politicians the least.