VENUE: Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA), 1, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi, Delhi 110001. DATE: 10TH DECEMBER 2015 TIME: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM ORGANISED BY : Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) DEF IMPACT team is launching the Country Research Report titled “Limited Access Restricting Expression” celebrating the human rights day on 10th December 2015. It will…
The Times of India has reported how a Nigerian fraudster duped a Hyderabad city based techie to the tune of Rs 1.4 lakh(about $2,200) by stealing his bank account details after infiltrating his mobile phone with a malware MMS – `greeting’. The victim is Srinivas, 28, a software engineer from Kukatpally. The Indian newspaper gives…
T-Mobile announced this week that it would no longer count video-streaming from certain apps, like Netflix, toward customers’ monthly data caps — it’s called “zero-rating” that traffic. Sounds great, right? But some Internet rights advocates argue the practice could be bad news for consumers. It’s the first time such a program has been offered in…
Consensus at the closing 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil today underscored the contribution of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet to the achievement of the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations announced. Goal 9 of the agenda sets an ambitious target to “significantly increase access to information and…
“The mainspring of the story is people will see what they want to see in one way or the other. And the crime rate has nothing to do with what they watch. The only way to bring down crime rate is to make sure that no perpetrator of such crime goes scot-free. “ The simplest…
Three days ago a petition popped up on the website Change.org urging Mark Zuckerberg to “support freedom of expression in India” by unblocking an atheist Facebook group there with over 13,000 members. Facebook, the petition said, had not given any reason for the blockade. One day users in India who tried to visit the site…