Internet shutdown in Kashmir during by poll; 25-year-old candidate taking on bigwigs: Amidst calls for poll boycott, the J&K Police decided to clamp the internet down in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency before the bypoll began on Sunday despite J&K Chief Election Officer suggesting not to, as their webcast would also be affected. Read More
Unlawful to make Aadhaar mandatory: Recently, I attempted a tweetstorm on why I think the 2016 Aadhaar Act does not override, or render useless, the orders passed in Oct 2015 by the Supreme Court. I argued that all of the recent notifications by various central government authorities making Aadhaar mandatory to avail the respective service…
Online abuse a modern-day weapon to silence women: Barkha Dutt: I have been called a whore, a ‘randi’, ‘c***”, bitch and ‘presstitute” on Twitter and other social media platforms so often that now I barely notice it. It is not unusual for me to get tweets that go like this: “Tum agar randi bhi ban…
Assam court issues bailable arrest warrant against Arvind Kejriwal for tweet over Narendra Modi’s education qualification: A court in Diphu has issued a bailable arrest warrant against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a defamation case arising out of his tweet on the Prime Minister’s educational qualification. Read More
Cyber crooks are now ‘LOOTING’ bank customers by exploiting ‘loopholes’ in UPI online payments after conning them into mobile SIM upgrades: Crooks are exploiting loopholes in the Unified Payments Interface mobile application to loot bank customers, police sources have revealed – underscoring a spike in cyber crimes as India moves towards a digital economy. Read…
INTERNET FREEDOM FORUM 2017 TO HOLD IN LAGOS, WITH OVER 30 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: The Internet Freedom Forum 2017 (IFF 2017), hosted by Paradigm Initiative, will hold from 25th to 27th April 2017 at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. The forum which has participants registered from over 30 countries will brings together stakeholders working on digital…
Facebook adds tools to block revenge porn on the platform: In a public post on the platform, Facebook co-founder, Mark Zukerberg wrote: “Today we’re rolling out new tools to prevent “revenge porn” from being shared on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram… It’s wrong, it’s hurtful, and if you report it to us, we will now use AI…
A response to Nandan Nilekani on Aadhaar (Updated): Claim 1 from Nandan Nilekani: When seeding and authentication are done properly, the success rate is over 95 per cent. Response: This is useless at the scale in which Aadhaar is implemented. When a person wants their monthly quota of rations, they are usually asked to provide…
Hackers attempt to target Army officers’ computers with sex videos: Hackers are targeting computers of Indian Army officers with decoy emails that purportedly contained links of “their sex videos”, found the cyber security team of Indian Army. According to a report of Mail Today, computers of at least four officers of Lieutenant General-rank were on target…
BJP files police complaint against Prashant Bhushan for ‘insulting’ Lord Krishna: A police complaint has been filed against Prashant Bhushan, a senior advocate and the co-founder of the new political party Swaraj Abhiyan, for his alleged ‘inflammatory tweets’ against ‘Lord Krishna.’ Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga filed the complaint at the Tilak Marg…