Govt plans to link social media accounts to the central database

Govt plans to link social media accounts to the central database

The govt besides the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) plans to connect to social media with records including immigration entry, banking, and phone numbers and all database information in one platform case. Home Minister has reviewed the progress of NATGRID on 12th Sept in Delhi.

National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) 

• The National Intelligence Grid wass first began in 2009 with a spending limit of Rs.2,800 crore.
• About 10 central agencies like Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and others will approach the information in a secured manner.
• NATGRID is presently headed by IAS Ashish Gupta.NATGRID's information recover center in Bengaluru has been built its office complex in South Delhi is nearing fulfillment. 

Data Gathering

• NATGRID is aiming to set up an Entity Extraction, Visualization and Analytics (EVA) framework data accessible from different information sources.
• The database will be gathred by 10 user offices from 21 associations like telecom, tax records, bank, immigration to empower the generation of intelligence inputs.