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Section 69B of the IT Act, 2000 empowers an authorised Government agency to monitor and collect traffic data. Which of the following is within the statutory meaning of 'traffic data' in that section?

Traffic data includes the communication's origin, destination, route, time, size, duration or type of underlying service, along with data identifying the person, system, network or location involved. Section 69B defines it this way, so it concerns communication metadata rather than message content, passwords or source code.

  1. AThe origin, destination, route, time, size and duration of a communicationCorrect
  2. BThe full textual content of an email message body only
  3. CThe password stored by a user for a banking portal
  4. DThe source code of software running on a server

Explanation

The Explanation to Section 69B defines traffic data as data identifying any person, computer system, network or location to or from which a communication is transmitted, including origin, destination, route, time, data, size, duration or type of underlying service. Message content, passwords and source code are not described in that way.

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