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Snooping thwarted terror acts: Kerry
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New Delhi (PTI): Defending his National Security Agency's (NSA) snooping programme, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the measure...
New Delhi (PTI): Defending his National Security Agency's (NSA) snooping programme, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that the measure had prevented terrorist acts and denied any violation of civil liberty in the US or in India. 
The remarks came after the issue about India being the fifth most tracked country by the US?intelligence using a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet was raised "briefly" during the 4th India-US strategic dialogue co-chaired by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his American counterpart John Kerry. Asked if the issue was raised during the meeting, Khurshid, at a joint press conference with Kerry, said "this is an area we both are interested in and we discussed it. Now, the issue of privacy and issues of reciprocity are all that we will keep in mind and these are matters that engage our attention on both sides and we are constantly in touch and if there is any need for things to be brought to notice on either side, it will be done so." He said that it was important to keep a distinction in mind between getting access to content and being able to study by way of computer software, patterns of communication, whether it is emails or telephone calls. He said US President Barack Obama had already spoken on this and "indicated their information that in several countries, terrorist strikes were prevented because of some of the work that they were able to do". "...there are enormous amount of "misinformation and misunderstanding about it. "I will proudly, proudly and forcefully defend civil liberties of the US and that of India and other democracies over every other country in the world. We take painstaking efforts, sometimes at the expense of endangering our ourselves, to protect the rights of people," Kerry said, while asserting that the spy programme does not look at content. "It does not look at individual emails. It does not listen to people's telephone conversation. It is a random survey by computers of any body's telephone, of just the numbers and not even the names.
The remarks came after the issue about India being the fifth most tracked country by the US?intelligence using a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet was raised "briefly" during the 4th India-US strategic dialogue co-chaired by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his American counterpart John Kerry. Asked if the issue was raised during the meeting, Khurshid, at a joint press conference with Kerry, said "this is an area we both are interested in and we discussed it. Now, the issue of privacy and issues of reciprocity are all that we will keep in mind and these are matters that engage our attention on both sides and we are constantly in touch and if there is any need for things to be brought to notice on either side, it will be done so." He said that it was important to keep a distinction in mind between getting access to content and being able to study by way of computer software, patterns of communication, whether it is emails or telephone calls. He said US President Barack Obama had already spoken on this and "indicated their information that in several countries, terrorist strikes were prevented because of some of the work that they were able to do". "...there are enormous amount of "misinformation and misunderstanding about it. "I will proudly, proudly and forcefully defend civil liberties of the US and that of India and other democracies over every other country in the world. We take painstaking efforts, sometimes at the expense of endangering our ourselves, to protect the rights of people," Kerry said, while asserting that the spy programme does not look at content. "It does not look at individual emails. It does not listen to people's telephone conversation. It is a random survey by computers of any body's telephone, of just the numbers and not even the names.
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