WhatsApp,Facebook not helping in terror probes, Intelligence Bureau
WhatsApp,Facebook not helping in terror probes, Intelligence Bureau
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NEW DELHI: In significant security strategies meeting on Friday intelligence and law enforcement agencies raised the concern over lack of support from Mark Jukarburg –led-internet giants such as WhatsApp and Facebook in terror probs.

According to TOI sources, counter-terror line of attack was the focus of negotiations on the second and final day of the annual national security strategies conference of all states, Union territories and central police organizations, held by the Intelligence Bureau at its headquarters here.

Rather than going into details of each counter-terror section, the talks centered on major strategies to battle terror and make successful probes and prosecutions in terror cases.

The major hesitant block to terror probes, as it was agreed, remained foreign-based, encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook that over and over again sat on requests of Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies for sharing messages exchanged between suspected terrorists and stored on their servers, in a clear and readable format.

In this meeting an officer from UP spoke about rising threats on the counter-terror landscape, especially in eastern parts of India. He asserted Radicalization drives by Bangladesh-based outfits like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in madrasas of West Bengal and Assam have emerged as a foremost security distress, with the straight involvement of JMB-affiliated operatives in a weak attempt to bomb the Bodh Gaya complex on January 19.

NEW DELHI: In significant security strategies meeting on Friday intelligence and law enforcement agencies raised the concern over lack of support from Mark Jukarburg –led-internet giants such as WhatsApp and Facebook in terror probs.

According to TOI sources, counter-terror line of attack was the focus of negotiations on the second and final day of the annual national security strategies conference of all states, Union territories and central police organizations, held by the Intelligence Bureau at its headquarters here.

Rather than going into details of each counter-terror section, the talks centered on major strategies to battle terror and make successful probes and prosecutions in terror cases.

The major hesitant block to terror probes, as it was agreed, remained foreign-based, encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and Facebook that over and over again sat on requests of Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies for sharing messages exchanged between suspected terrorists and stored on their servers, in a clear and readable format.

In this meeting an officer from UP spoke about rising threats on the counter-terror landscape, especially in eastern parts of India. He asserted Radicalization drives by Bangladesh-based outfits like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in madrasas of West Bengal and Assam have emerged as a foremost security distress, with the straight involvement of JMB-affiliated operatives in a weak attempt to bomb the Bodh Gaya complex on January 19.

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