In The near future, when you walk into a cyber café, you will not just be asked for your name, address and proof of identification. A web camera device connected to a network system will click and record your photograph before you begin using the computer.

There’s more. In 32 districts where multiple purpose identity cards are to be issued by January 31 as part of a pilot project, residents could be asked to produce these cards as identity proof every time they use the services of a cyber café.

•Cyber cafes may soon be fitted with web cameras that will take photographs of users

•A pilot project in 32 districts will see multi-purpose ID cards being issued to residents, who will have to produce them every time they enter a cyber café

•These recommendations from security agencies come in the backdrop of threatening email to VIPs and vital installations and terrorists’s growing penchant for techniology

These are just two suggestions the government is considering for the rules it will have to notify under the recently introduced amendment to the IT Bill that is pending parliamentary approval.