India to Monitor Google and Skype

India on September 1 expanded its drive to monitor Internet and telecommunication networks for security threats. The government said all communication-services providers operating in India, including Google Inc. and Skype Technologies SA, will need to open up their data within two months to be scrutinized regularly to ensure national security. "They have to install servers in the country," said federal Home Secretary G.K. Pillai, referring to the communications companies. Servers in India will enable local agencies to monitor the services. The latest move comes two days after Research In Motion Ltd. of Canada averted a ban in India by offering technical solutions to monitor its heavily encrypted BlackBerry services.