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Software to keep track of Internet cafe users

KOCHI: Over 100 cyber cafes in the city will soon start using new software that will record the personal information, including photos, of customers.

This is expected to check cyber crimes by anonymous people making use of cyber cafes.

The software, called CLINCK Cyber Café Manager, is supplied free of cost to the cyber cafés by Ideacts Innovations.

At a meeting of cyber café owners called on Friday, Deputy Commissioner of Police George Verghese launched the software.

Police said starting Saturday, the software would be supplied to over 100 Internet cafes in the city. This would make the cyber cafes more secure as very often, the owners were being made to answer for the crimes committed by customers about whom the owners had no knowledge.

Following last year’s incident in which a lovelorn youth had sent threatening emails to top leaders of the nation in the name of his girlfriend, the police had asked all cyber cafes to keep a log book of their customers. However, this system was found not very effective as it provided only misleading information about cyber criminals.

The new software will record all the relevant information about a cyber café user so that, when needed, the police can verify them and locate the criminals. The software will give each customer an all-India log-in identity.

This is especially useful in the context of the amended Information Technology Act which is very harsh on cyber criminals.

Under the Act, sending threatening mail or forwarding messages or pictures that will hurt the reputation of other people will attract a punishment of up to three years in jail and a fine of Rs. 5 lakh.

Ideacts Innovations has already supplied the software to cyber cafes in many other cities.

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