Photo IDs for India cyber cafes?

The India blogging community is buzzing over another step in restricting Internet use in India, taking a cue from China. The lone report from IBN (looking for other sources):

In first such move within the country, the Delhi Police on Fridayissued orders to all cyber cafe owners to ask for photo identity cardsfrom the users.

The cyber cafe owners have also been asked to maintain a register for entry and exit of each and every cafe user.

See the BloggersCollective discussion of this thread for more info.

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