India has emerged as the fifth most tracked country by the US intelligence which used a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet data. Britain's Guardian newspaper claims to have acquired top secret documents about US’ National Security Agency's (NSA) data-mining tool, called Boundless Informant.
The tool details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks. It showed that Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14 billion reports in that period, followed by 13.5 billion from Pakistan.
Jordan, one of America’s closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7 billion, Egypt fourth with 7.6 billion and India fifth with 6.3billion.