Assam

CAA: Home Ministry’s IT cell to monitor social media

Pratidin Bureau

Afterrestoration of mobile internet data services after nine days of suspension dueto the widespread anti-CAA protests, now the government has set up a cyber monitoringcell to keep an eye on social media.

TheUnion Ministry of Home Affairs has authorised a private agency to monitor thesocial media platforms. With this mandate, agencies will perform interception,monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted throughsocial media.

Thistie-up will keep rumours at bay and avert setting off a chain reaction withpossible violent outcomes like riots, lynching etc and rein in social mediausers who could mislead the people.

Accordingto highly placed sources, the cyber cell has created a database of commonlyused Assamese words (eg. Jati, Mati, Bheti). As of now, the database of this 'Unicodelibrary' contains 1 lakh words of Assamese language. A group of social mediaexperts, software engineer are responsible for adding words at the database.

Withthe help of 'Unicode database system' the cyber cell will receive a notificationwhen you're supposed to create a post using the library words. If your postgoes against community guidelines; you can be sued for something you post on thevirtual platform.

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