Indian govt. is seeking effective ways to monitor social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has written to the Department of Telecom (DoT) asking the latter to ensure these social networking sites are effectively monitored.

The telecom service providers already provided facilities for the law enforcement agencies to intercept and monitor the data flowing in their network. But the social networking services like Facebook and Twitter won’t provide such information until a court order or legal proceedings document.

So the government may seek effective rules and ways to strengthen the monitoring communications in these social networking websites.