The External Affairs Ministry has banned its diplomats from signing up and posting information on social media websites, fearing leakage of identity and other classified information. This includes not only Facebook, Orkut and the usual suspects, but also P2P networks like Kazaa and photo-sharing services like Picasa.
This move isn’t entirely without reason: apparently officials have in the past used their personal webmail accounts for official work while on foreign tours.
In Britain this July, the intelligence service MI6 was confronted with the mother of all nightmares when the wife of its newly-appointed chief exposed several personal details of their family, including their address, their network of friends, holiday location, and (horrors) his code name.