The news of the US's National Security Agency’s surveillance programme is hardly shocking. Technological progress over the years has rendered the common man insecure, wherever he is.

It has been proved once again that technology can be good or bad depending on the person who uses it. India’s response — that it is not surveillance — shows how subsurvient India is to the US.

It is unfortunate and shame on successive Indian governments that the government is “hoodwinking” the people of our country and claiming that the NSA programme is “not actually snooping but they are simply observing the communication patterns.” Contrary to the claims, according to the PRISM document, much of the communication targeted by the NSA is unrelated to terrorism.

Also according to a top secret document disclosed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the PRISM programme was deployed by the American agency to gather key information from India by tapping directly into the servers of tech giants(Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, Hotmail and many others) which provide services such as email, video sharing, voice-over-IPs, online chats, file transfer and social networking services and what not.

Similarly, the recent revelations claim that much of the surveillance was focused on India’s domestic politics and the country’s strategic and commercial interests.

India's refusal of asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden further strengthen the fact that India is dancing to the tunes of the U.S.'s quest for global hegemony.

It is clearly evident that the sovereignty of our nation has been compromised. As responsible citizens of India, we, ought to know why our government has been allowying this massive surveillance. ForIT condemns the US spying on our country and its citizens and demands the Indian government to provide an immediate and justifiable explanation to its people on the blatant mortgage of our sovereignty and violation of individual freedom and privacy.