According to the AFP, the Indian Government wants the ability to spy on all manner of their citizen’s communications on the Internet. Recently they made news by joining the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in demanding access to Blackberry communications. Now it seems that the government is demanding access to Google Gmail communications and voice communications from Skype.

“If a company is providing telecom services in Indian, then all communications must be available to Indian security services,” a government representative told AFP. “If Google or Skype have a component that is not accessible, that will not be possible. The message is the same for everybody.”

The Indian government is also said to be wanting access to corporate VPN traffic. How they will do this without compromising the security of corporations is really up for debate.

I wonder if they will be trying to ban IronKeys next?