Centre seeks volunteers to flag anything anti-national

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The government has asked common people to register as cyber crime volunteers to identify illegal and anti-national content.

The project known as Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre is an initiative of the Union Ministry. It was started in J&K last week where the police asked citizens to register themselves as volunteers. A spokesperson of J&K police said that any Indian citizen can register in any of three categories of - Cyber Volunteer Unlawful Content Flagger, Cyber Awareness Promoter and Cyber Expert.

The first category will help identify illegal and unlawful online content like child pornography, rape, gang rape, terrorism, radicalisation, anti-national activities, etc, the second will help create awareness about cyber crime among citizens. The third will help deal with specific domains of cybercrime, forensics, network forensics, malware analysis, memory analysis and cryptography.

The volunteers are barred from issuing any public statement about their association with this programme and are also "strictly prohibited" from using the name of Ministry of Home Affairs or claim to have a link with any social media or public platform.

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