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By Hera Rizwan The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) amended the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Interception, Monitoring and Decryption of Information) Rules, last week . According to a gazette notification dated February 26, the revisions now authorise the Union and state home secretaries to instruct the removal of surveillance data six months after its collection. As per the previous system, the power to delete surveillance records was exclusively held by the security agency conducting the surveillance, whether under the authorisation of the hom…