Cyber-Cafe Monitoring in India

It is being reported that Mumbai police are looking into installing monitoring software — including a keystroke logger — to catch terrorists who use the Internet in cyber-cafe’s.

The Mumbai police are in dialogue with M/s Micro Technologies for procuring a software called CARMS (Cyber Access Remote Monitoring System), a powerful monitoring tool that seeks to curb cyber crime. CARMS monitors web browsing, file transfers, news, chats, messaging and e-mail, including all encoded attachments..

All cyber cafes in the city will now need a police license to keep their business going. All cafes need to register at the police headquarters and provide details on the number of computers installed, type of computers and technical details like the IP address of each machine.

September 12th 2007 International, Internet Surveillance, News Monitor