During his town hall address at IIT Delhi, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said: “Those who don’t have access to the internet cannot sign online petitions.” But how can he decide what is best for them? Recent research by Amba Kak at the Oxford Internet Institute found that financially constrained users prefer buying shorter duration Internet…
The state of cyber security in India is reaching critical levels, with acts of cybercrime continuously rising. An India specific report by Norton by Symantec revealed that 113 million users are affected by some form of online attack in 2015. 16,000 people spend as many as 30 hours dealing with the fallout of cybercrimes. Ritesh…
Last month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in India, defending his company’s initiative Internet.org, promoted now in a new avatar called Free Basics. The programme’s key feature is free access to select websites, or zero rating. Facebook claims it will help to extend Internet access to millions who find data charges unaffordable. Its critics see…
Threat of attacks on the cyberspace cannot be fathomed without accepting the fact that the internet, by definition, is an entity without any borders. What this implies is that cyberspace of a particular country or region cannot be excluded from the global network, which affects the latter and vice-versa. Cyberspace’s growth directly proportional to cyber…