27 no such Commission has been set up till date, and thus, practices of authorised/unauthorised surveillance continue to go unnoticed by the citizens. C. Pervasive Use of Legal Processes to obtain User Data 28. On the other hand, the Authorised Agencies of the Central Government and law enforcement agencies at the State level have been frequently monitoring communications on the Internet. In response to a question raised in Rajya Sabha, the Minister for State for Home Affairs stated that: “The Security/Intelligence agencies regularly monitor the popular social media sites and websites and take necessary action in case of they find any classified material or provocative material or anti-national or terror related material hosted / circulated on such sites.” True Copy of the reply of the Minister of State for Home Affairs in Rajya Sabha dated 19.07.2017 is annexed herewith as ANNEXURE P-10 (Page No. 129). 29. Moreover, there has been a huge spike in the number of requests received from major Internet companies from the law enforcement agencies for seeking disclosure of personal data of its customers. The following chart, based on the publicly available Transparency Reports of these companies, reveals the total number of requests, along with individual accounts covered by such requests, received from the enforcement authorities in India 2017: 2017 NO. OF REQUESTS ACCOUNTS INVOLVED GOOGLE 97,838 1,70,608 FACEBOOK 22,024 31,014 576 1,431 TWITTER