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- The websites and applications related to the decennial Census exercise and the National Population Register (NPR) were notified as “protected system” or “Critical Information Infrastructure” under the Information Technology Act, 2008.
- The notification means that any tampering or unauthorised access to the data associated with Census applications, NPR database or the data centres of the Registrar General of India (RGI) will be punishable by ten years imprisonment.
- Section 70 of the IT Act states that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any computer resource which directly or indirectly affects the facility of Critical Information Infrastructure, to be a protected system.
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