Govt developing digital forensics facilities to examine cyber crime: Chandigarh, May 19 (PTI) The Union government is procuring latest equipment to develop digital forensics facilities at the Central Forensic Science Laboratories (CFSL) in the country. The director-cum-chief forensic scientist of the Directorate of Forensic Science Services, A K Ganjoo, today said, “The digital forensics facilities…
Digital India must protect itself with well-crafted cloud security strategy: Since its launch in 2015, the Digital India programme has been steadily gathering momentum. The ambitious undertaking aims to connect the entire country, regardless of location or demographics. Read More
The future of the internet depends on you: In this article Andreas Reventlow writes about the role that new participants can play in human rights advocacy for internet policymaking, now that these processes have become more accessible to non-experts. These reflections also provide a timely introduction to the next public event in the Defending Human…
Digital India for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development: Indian government has been facilitating this trend with a number of schemes and retro-measures. To weed out black money and corruption from public life, Government has been leveraging digital transaction ecosystem. By December 2017 all government agencies would adopt digital way of transacting to ensure inclusive growth.…
So what is India’s human rights record really like?: It is considered to be a unique peer-review mechanism in which every country is held to account for its human rights record. Set up in 2006, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council, had its first session in April…
Digital native: Free speech? You must be joking!: Freedom of speech and expression has always been a tricky issue. While all of us are generally in favour of defending our rights to speak what is in our hearts, we are not equally thrilled about the speech of others that we might not enjoy. Read More
Awareness only way to fight cyber crime: Experts: Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) Describing cyber crime as a rising menace in India, experts on Thursday said proper awareness, assessment, and implementation of security policies were the way forward to fight the malady. Read More
‘Kashmir’s internet ban is a collective punishment’: United Nations urge India to respect freedom of expression: Two United Nations special rapporteurs have urged the Indian government to lift a ban on social media sites and mobile internet service in the Indian-controlled portion of disputed Kashmir. Read More
Freedom of speech shouldn’t be stretched too far: Hosbale: Mumbai, May 11 (PTI) Senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosbale today said that freedom of speech should be used with caution, and it should be ensured that it is not helping the forces which are against the country’s development. Speaking at a function here, the sah-sarkaryvah (joint…
Child grooming: India must take measures to protect children from online sexual abuse: Earlier this month, newspapers reported that a 13-year-old girl from Tirupur was lured and raped by a 21-year-old man in Chennai. What makes this incident even more shocking is that the rapist had befriended the victim first on Facebook and sexually assaulted…