Security agencies to get social media data mining, face recognition tools: Rajnath

Security agencies are trying to obtain new software and improved face-recognition technology to enable themselves to dig deeper into social media about a criminal whose record is unavailable in police database, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Thursday.

Singh said cybercrimes were posing a "big challenge" to the security establishment.

He said security agencies have detected that terrorists were using the "dark internet" to recruit operatives and to "sell and purchase confidential information by big criminals."
Singh said his ministry has simplified the purchasing procedures for equipment, weapons and gadgets for the security forces and "now it is a two-tier system as compared to the previous three-tier task."