Indian Government is soon going to launch Netra, an Internet surveillance system to spy on all Internet traffic inside India. It can read and access whatever content is being generated by users on Internet such as social media posts, emails, …

Netra would be used by Intelligence Bureau (IB) which is our domestic intelligence agency along with Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) which is our external intelligence agency to “intercept and analyze Internet traffic using pre-defined filters”.

DRDO has been working …

Last year, Government carried out tests of Netra and another Internet surveillance system called “Vishwarupal“, developed by the National Technical Research Organization (NTRO). Basically, they were trying to determine which of these systems is more efficient.

But as per the …

Netra will basically filter out the content which is being generated by netizens. It will detect and catch words like ‘attack’, ‘bomb’, ‘blast’, ‘kill’, ‘jehad’, ‘murder’ etc as soon as they are uploaded via social media shares such as Facebook …