The Hindu Business Line : Spatial pictures of nations on the Web, a security risk: Kalam

Delivering the Sardar Vallabhai Patel memorial lecture at the National Police Academy here on Saturday, Dr Kalam referred to the widely debated earth observations by Google Earth.

"Most of you may or may not be aware that the high resolutions pictures are freely available on the Internet provided by many sites, including www.fas.org and Google Earth," he said.

"You will realise that some of the developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen to provide such high resolutions about them," he pointed out in his written text.

Stating that laws that governed spatial observations over their territory and UN recommendations about the display of spatial observations were not adequate, he asked the gathering to discuss these issues and come up with possible solutions for the Government.

He pointed out that Internet could be utilised effectively for gathering information about the grouping of terrorists.

"It (the Web) contains a vast amount of information about people, corporates and nations. In the earlier days, the intelligence information used to be gathered by field officers working directly near the source of information," he said.

But one can gather information through the intelligent mining of data coming out in many newspapers and Web sites. It gives ample information about possible groups, their intentions and their connectivities. Regular monitoring of the Internet could give you indicators of pre-formation activities of terrorists groups and their origins and their supporters, he said.

Speaking on the theme `National development: Police a partner,' the President asked the police to be people-friendly, corruption-free, responsible and tolerant to ambiguity.

He also called for the creation of a police e-governance grid to connect all the police stations with the Director General of Police's (DGP) office.

This would generate a new management style among the people, the large force of police constables and the middle and top-level police officials.

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