Ajit Pai’s Fight Against Net Neutrality: Net neutrality: The idea that internet providers should enable equal access to all (legal) content and applications, regardless of source or nature. It is a principle of open networks and open access. To evangelists it is the core tenet that preserves users’ rights to free communication without which the…
Privacy concerns in Kashmir over cellphone prying: Security forces in Kashmir, particularly in its volatile south, are allegedly prying into cellphones of residents during roadside searches, raising privacy issues in a state where militants use social media to propagate their agenda and garner mass support. Even as officials denied it was routine policing practice, dozens…
Is Facebook Censoring Us Without Our Permission?: In the age of the Internet, it may seem as though we have nearly unlimited access to information, but exactly how trustworthy is the information we find on places like Facebook and other social media sites? Are the sources we consider unbiased and reliable really untouched by outside…
Darjeeling situation tense on 53rd day of GJM shutdown: DARJEELING: The situation in Darjeeling remained tense on Sunday, though no incident of violence was reported since last night. The police and security personnel kept a strict watch on the situation on the 53rd day of the indefinite shutdown in the hills, called by the Gorkha Janmukti…
Hacker shows cops how he got Aadhaar data: Abhinav Srivastava, prime accused in the Aadhaar data theft case, stunned investigators on Saturday with a six-hour demonstration explaining the shortcuts he used to hack+ into websites. He disclosed the modus operandi he used to hack into the government website to access Aadhaar data. The cyber crime sleuths recorded…
Fundamental Right For Digital Indians: My criticism of Aadhaar isn’t new. The biometric ID system has a flawed design and verification procedures are weak, I had noticed way back in 2010. Aadhaar during the UPA-2 days involved thousands of crores of rupees (public money) being spent on a project that had no discourse or legislative…
Privacy concerns in Kashmir over cellphone prying: Security forces in Kashmir, particularly in its volatile south, are allegedly prying into cellphones of residents during roadside searches, raising privacy issues in a state where militants use social media to propagate their agenda and garner mass support. Even as officials denied it was routine policing practice, dozens…
Restore internet, withdraw police: GJM protests as hill shutdown enters 50th day: Demanding restoration of Internet services and immediate withdrawal of police force, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha took out rallies in various parts of the Darjeeling hills on Thursday. As the indefinite strike called by the GJM in their demand for a separate state enters…
Bengaluru techie held for illegally accessing Aadhaar database: A Bengaluru-based software developer was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly accessing the Aadhaar database through a mobile application he had developed, city police commissioner T Suneel Kumar told mediapersons on Thursday. Abhinav Shrivastav (31), an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, hails from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The app used for…
India should not retreat from quality of polity, freedom of speech: ex-World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu: India should not retreat from the quality of polity and the freedom of speech, the keystones of democracy, former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu said in Mumbai on Friday. “Indian leaders may be concerned about the increasing…