Even porn sites have some privacy standard that they maintain. But Indian government doesn't. Pornhub and YouPorn, which are among the world's most used adult video streaming sites, have announced that April 4 they will enforce HTTPS be default. This means whenever a user visits to Pornhub or YouPorn after April 4, he or she will connect to the sites using secure network, which will minimise the risk of someone collecting data on the user's browsing session.

Most of the other big web services, from Facebook to Gmail, already enforce HTTPS by default. Sadly, the same can't be said about the Indian government websites, including official websites run by sensitive ministries such as Defence and Finance. None of them use HTTPS, although RBI and UIDAI, the agency behind Aadhaar project, do use secure protocols on their websites.

The HTTPS has become an important tool in the recent years as concerns over privacy continue to grow. Although HTTPS is not something that can end all to privacy risk, it makes it very difficult for internet service providers, cyber criminals, state surveillance agencies and any other third party to to intercept the web traffic. For example, if you use an email service that doesn't use HTTPS, it is very easy for your internet service provider to intercept and record your emails. But on a website like Gmail, that uses HTTPS, it is nearly impossible.

At the same time, HTTPS makes it difficult for internet service providers and governments to block websites. For example in India, where websites are blocked using a master list at the ISP and landing stations, websites that use HTTPS can't be blocked.

But most significantly, the use of HTTPS shows that you care about the privacy of people who are coming to visit your website. And this is one area where the Indian government is failing, although as the recent incident involving Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Aadhaar details showed, in India government agencies don't even understand the concept of privacy.

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In the recent times the use HTTPS has increased many-fold. "The movement to encrypt the web has reached a milestone. As of earlier this month, approximately half of Internet traffic is now protected by HTTPS. In other words, we are halfway to a web safer from the eavesdropping, content hijacking, cookie stealing, and censorship that HTTPS can protect against," noted a report by Electronic Frontier Foundation in February.

In the recent months, Chrome and Firefox -- two browsers used majorly -- have also nudged websites to implement HTTPS. Both show web users the status of security on a website by showing a green lock (if the site is secure), an exclamation mark (if the site lacks https) and red lock (if the site's security certificate has expired).

For most government websites in India, both browsers show exclamation mark. In comparison, most government sites in the US and Europe use HTTPS by default.