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Now, an expanded horizon of surveillance

Now, an expanded horizon of surveillance Updated: Updated: March 09, 2021 21:01 IST ‘Citizen watch’ gets a new meaning after the notification on the IT Rules, 2021 the promotion of lateral surveillance Share Article AAA ‘Citizen watch’ gets a new meaning after the notification on the IT Rules, 2021 the promotion of lateral surveillance This year, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), launched the Cyber Crime Volunteers Programme with the aim to allow citizens to register themselves as “Cyber Crime Volunteers’’ in the role of “Unlawful Content Flaggers”. As per the official website of the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, the programme will help law enforcement agencies in identifying, reporting and in the removal of illegal/unlawful online content. The programme, which will be launched all over the country, is going to have its test run in Jammu and Kashmir and Tripura.

Cyber crime volunteers plan fraught with dangers: Internet Freedom Foundation

It will lead to a “culture of surveillance creating potential social distrust”, MHA told The Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MHA) controversial “cyber crime volunteers” programme targets to rope in around 500 persons to flag unlawful content on the Internet for “improvement in the cyber-crime ecosystem of India”. The programme will include 200 “cyber awareness promoters” and 50 “cyber experts”, according to the output outcome monitoring framework of the MHA’s budget 2021-22. The output outcome framework developed by the NITI Aayog was adopted in the 2019-20 budget to define and evaluate government schemes below ₹500 crore in terms of outcomes. The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a digital liberties organisation, has written to the MHA that the scheme will lead to a “culture of surveillance and constant suspicion in society creating potential social distrust”.

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