Counter use of technology for cybercrime, India tells UN Ad Hoc group

New Delhi: India is seeking global action to counter the use of a slew technologies including virtual private networks, end-to-end encrypted messaging services and blockchain-based technologies such as cryptocurrency by terrorists, people aware of the development told ET, mirroring its domestic stance on the issue.

In their suggestions to members of an Ad Hoc committee of the United Nations debating a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, Indian officials said, “ the anonymity, scale, speed and scope offered to ( terrorists) and the increasing the possibility of their remaining untraceable to law enforcement agencies” by using these technologies remains one of the major challenges before the world.