Cyber cafés will now have to install CCTV cameras

Shillong, Sept 25: A notification making the installation of CCTV cameras in all cyber cafes in Meghalaya has been issued by the Meghalaya Information & Technology department Tuesday. The notification will be effective from the day it is published in the Meghalaya gazette making installation of the CCTV mandatory in all the cyber cafes in the state.

The law for installation of the CCTV cameras is part of the government efforts in curtailing cyber crimes emanating from cyber cafes. It may be recalled that in 2010 a law student was arrested after he sent and email threatening to BJP leader LK Advani when he was schedule to visit Shillong.

Besides the installation of CCTV cameras cyber cafés in the state are already taking cafés clients IDs and detail.

Earlier during the day during the inauguration of a seminar on “Cyber World and its challenges” organized by Lady Keane college, Meghalaya IT commissioner & secretary DP Wahlang had said, “The cyber rules are specifically meant to tackle cyber crimes emanating from the cyber cafes operating in the state and preventing them for propagating ideologies which are not in consonant with the state.”

Wahlang said the rules have been framed as such to give access to the police the details of anyone using the cyber cafés at any given time.- By Our Reporter

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