[pchelpers] Article: Police in pursuit of systematic means to tackle cyber crime Law & order

The police believe that two new rules drafted by the Centre will help
deal with cyber crime, writes Biju Govind.


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The proposal of the Department of Information Technology under the Union
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to introduce two
rules will help curtail the rising number of Internet crimes, according
to senior police officers. 

These are the Information Technology (Directions for Interception,
Monitoring and Decryption of Information) Rules, 2009 and the
Information Technology (Directions for Interception, Monitoring and
Decryption of Information) Rules, 2009.

They said the proposed rules generally give an impression that they
infringe upon the privacy of the individual following the enforcement of
the orders for interception or monitoring or decryption of any
information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer
resource. 

However, these orders will be given by the competent authority concerned
who is the Union Home Secretary, Secretary in-charge of Home Department
in a State government or Union Territory. 

Only in any unavoidable circumstances, such order will be issued by an
officer, not below the rank of a Joint Secretary at the Home Department
at the Centre and State government respectively. 

More here:
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/06/stories/2009070653420300.htm
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