TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Security agencies are trying to obtain new software and improved face-recognition technology to enable themselves to dig deeper into social media about a criminal whose record is unavailable in police database, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday.
Singh said cybercrimes were posing a “big challenge” to the security establishment. He said security agencies have detected that terrorists were using the “dark internet” to recruit operatives and to “sell and purchase confidential information by big criminals.” He said hence, for the first time, they have created a cyber-security division in the home ministry.
Inaugurating a three-day Defence and Homeland Security Expo and Conference 2018, organised by the PHD Chamber, Singh said the utility of drones in ensuring security has been found to be necessary and the central government will soon bring out a policy on their comprehensive usage in the country. “I am fully confident that drones will be very useful for our security forces. I have seen their capabilities and utility in the conduct of anti-naxal operations,” he said.
