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MHA accuses Vodafone of secretly sharing data with British agency

New Delhi: Major telecom player Vodafone has been accused by the Union Home Ministry of secretly sharing subscriber data with a British intelligence and security organisation, a charge denied by the company. According to documents

PTI PTI Updated on: March 11, 2014 10:20 IST
The Government of India s approval of our FDI application states that it was cleared by the FIPB and CCEA after all necessary due diligence".

The telecom operator also denied that it was disclosing "any customer data in any jurisdiction unless like any other operator it is legally required to do so".

Vodafone said it complies with the law in all countries of its operations, including in the case of its European businesses-- the EU Privacy Directive and EU Data Retention Directive.

It also rejected the Union Home Ministry's charge of being a tax evader and said "Vodafone has never been accused of tax evasion. Vodafone s businesses around the world paid more than 4.2 billion pound in direct taxes to governments in our countries of operation last year, plus more than 3.2 billion pound in other non-taxation-based fees and levies".

"Our businesses also made a total indirect tax contribution to national governments of 6.1 billion pounds," it said. In its reaction to PTI, GCHQ said: "It is a long-standing policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters."

It said the work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework ensuring that the activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight.

"All our operational processes rigorously support this position," the spokesperson of GCHQ said.
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