This new website will solve all your online privacy issues: A Delhi-based organization, SFLC.in(Software Freedom Law Centre), has launched a new website — ‘Privacy Bytes’, to provide policymakers, academics, media persons and the public at large with resources on online privacy-related issues, matters and cases in India. Read More
27,482 cybersecurity threat incidents in India till June 2017: CERT-In: India witnessed more than 27,000 cyber security threat incidents in the first half of 2017, according to Minister of State for Electronics and IT P P Chaudhary’s reply in Rajya Sabha. Threats reported include phishing attacks, website intrusions and defacements or damages to data as well…
A Public Focused Approach To Net Neutrality: Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without improper discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services. It’s a principle that’s faced many threats over the years from ISPs and government agencies seeking to…
Indian consumers comfortable in sharing personal data online: report: Brands need to be more responsible with data as Indian consumers are far more trusting than those in other countries when it comes to sharing their personal data online if it improves their user experience, according to a study by consulting firm Kantar TNS. Read More
Netizens lose calm over pervert’s photos: When women on social media were running a viral campaign #MeToo against the sexual abuse faced by women, a Mumbai-based man allegedly posted pictures and videos of him on Instagram and Facebook while allegedly molesting women by touching their bare backs in public places. The posts of the man…
Google Maps to become smarter, can be accessed offline on weak data connection: The Indian story in 2017 seems to have been good for Google. Google Maps is seeing a 100% year-on-year growth in India now. “Thanks to larger data plans, people are not really concerned about bandwidth anymore and as a result, we see…
Dear millennials, here is why you are a soft target for cyber criminals: What does it take to stay safe on internet in the age of mass malware and ransomware attacks? If you think it’s knowledge of how internet works, you should think again. Awareness counts as much as knowledge because it has come to…
Amend IPC, appoint cybercrime coordinators: Panel to Govt: Over two years after the Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act as being unconstitutional, a high-level expert committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to suggest ways to tackle online hate speech, earlier dealt by Section 66A, has finally suggested…
Kashmiri Journalists and Activists Face Twitter Censorship at Indian Government’s Request: Dozens of people who have tweeted about the conflict in Indian-administered Kashmir or shown sympathy for Kashmiri independence movements online may soon be censored on Twitter, at the request of the Indian government. The US-based social media company sent notices to users explaining that the Indian government had…
Now, Districts Magistrates can’t order shutdown of internet services: Now, the district magistrates are no more authorized to clamp down on the internet services even in case of law & order problem or communal tension in their respective areas. The Union ministry of information technology has frames fresh rules and regulations in this regard and…