Union Home Minister Amit Shah stressed the need for deployment of technology, data, and automation to face security requirements today, which he said have changed in terms of scope and complexity. He launched the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) campus in Bengaluru, Forensic Science Laboratory in Ballari, and Smart e-Beat app for the State police in the city on Tuesday.
Mr. Shah said the Union Government will soon develop a national database to monitor terror funding, counterfeit currency, narcotics, bomb threats, illegal arms trade, hawala transactions, and other terror activities. This will help agencies to make full use of data, especially since the barriers to critical data have been removed. But he also stressed the need for data privacy and security.
