India’s Cyber Security agency CERT-IN received as many as 96,383 complaints between January and September 2014, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in the Indian Parliament last week. That amounts to 10,709 complaints per month, which is 79% higher than the 5982 complaints per month in 2013. At this rate, the total number of complaints…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned the Centre it would make inoperative certain controversial provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act often invoked by authorities to muzzle free speech on social media, if it failed to clarify its stand within a week. “Heavens are not going to fall if the provisions are stayed… because this…
The Bombay high court on Monday sentenced a man to one month simple imprisonment after holding him guilty of criminal contempt of court for posting defamatory material against the judicial system on social networking sites. “Time has come. The courts will have to take a strict view,” said a division bench of Justices V M…