To track terror plots faster, the government proposes to set up a centralised system to monitor communications on mobiles, landline phones and Internet.
A pilot project of the central monitoring system (CMS) is likely to be launched by June, 2010 subject to clearance by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, Minister of State for Telecom and IT Gurudas Kamat said in Rajya Sabha today.
The CMS is envisaged to be implemented by the Department of Telecom to strengthen the security environment in the country.
In the existing system, secrecy can be compromised because of manual intervention at many stages. In CMS, there will be minimum manual intervention and functions will be performed on secured electronic link, he said in a written reply.
Interception through CMS will be instant as well. It takes pretty long time in the existing system.
Central and regional database will help central and state level law enforcement agencies in interception and monitoring.
CMS will also help in direct electronic provisioning of target numbers by the government agencies without any manual intervention from telecom service providers.
It will also set filters and alert creation on the target numbers and will help in call data records (CDR) analysis and data mining on CDRs to identify call details, location details of the target numbers.
