Bangladesh (Tazakhobor.com): The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) today unveiled a new cyber watchdog to thwart cyber crimes against the country to ensure national security. 

BTRC formed the team just a week after reports suggested that the plotters of last week''s botched coup wanted to use internet facilities to spearhead their campaign to oust the Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina''s government.
The 11-member Bangladesh Computer Security Incident Response Team (BD-CSIPT), a special body of the BRTC, has started its works on Wednesday for the first time in the county.
“The BD-CSIRT is mainly assigned to identify the sites and persons or institutions who will engage in operating harmful activities against the state, society, political and religious beliefs using the mobile phone, website and different social networking sites,” BTRC Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Zia Ahmed told BSS.
It will also recommend taking punitive measures against the offenders, and in some cases it will take action directly as per the authority given by the telecom act, Zia said.
The mobile-phone operators and other members have promised their help in the regulator's efforts, Ahmed said.
BTRC director general (legal and licence) A K M Shahiduzzaman also informed press that, people accused of committing cyber crime will be sentenced to two to five years in jail and fined from Tk 500,000 up to Tk 50 million if found guilty.
He also added, three cyber crime experts of the BTRC who took training from abroad has already started work in full swing to monitor the country''s cyber world and it would continue relentlessly.
Earlier, even the High Court moved when a university teacher had in his facebook status wished death to the prime minister.
However some syas, this is another way of blindfolding the freedom of speech.



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Source: Bdbangla-News
Key words: BTRC Watchdog, BTRC Watchdog For Cyber Crime, BD-CSIPT, Bangladesh Computer Security Incident Response Team

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