India asks Verizon to block access to certain websites

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India asks Verizon to block access to certain websites

India is among five countries which made a request to US telecom giant Verizon to block access to certain websites.

India had asked American telecom giant Verizon to block access to certain websites in the country last year, the company has claimed.
Verizon, which became the first major US telecom carrier to release a "transparency report" according to which it received 320,000 data queries last year from the US, however, did not reveal the details of the websites which were blocked.
"We were required to block access to websites in India but are precluded by law from identifying the specific number of websites," the Verizon yesterday said, adding that India was one of the five countries which had made such a request.

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