Human Rights and Regular Internet Users: Human rights are a topic that came up several times at the IETF meeting that just ended. There’s a Human Rights Research Group that had a session with a bunch of short presentations, and the featured two talks at the plenary asking, ‘Can Internet Protocols Affect Human Rights?’ The…
BJP files police complaint against Prashant Bhushan for ‘insulting’ Lord Krishna: A police complaint has been filed against Prashant Bhushan, a senior advocate and the co-founder of the new political party Swaraj Abhiyan, for his alleged ‘inflammatory tweets’ against ‘Lord Krishna.’ Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga filed the complaint at the Tilak Marg…
Govt plans word limit for RTI, make information expensive: The Modi government’s plan to change information law norms, including a 500-word limit for an application and higher fee, has activists worried who see it as an attempt to dilute the RTI. The changes proposed will make information expensive and take online the process of complaint…
Internet Shutdowns and Content Blocking Not the Answer, Says Internet Society: The Internet Society today voiced its commitment to keeping the Internet on for everyone, in response to the increasing number of government orders to temporarily shut down or restrict access to Internet services. Speaking out at RightsCon 2017, the world’s leading conference on Internet…
Government admits Aadhaar was ‘great initiative’ of Congress regime: Admitting that Aadhaar was a “great initiative” of the previous UPA government, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said it was being expanded by making the card mandatory for direct benefit transfer of subsidy and checking of tax evasion. Read More
Social media, a new tool for burglars: CHENNAI: They don’t lurk in the dark looking for a lock to pick or a wall to scale. Police are confronting a new breed of tech-savvy burglars who tap and swipe their way into homes using smart phones. The giveaway: the victims’ status messages and photos on social…
India ranks 2nd in ransomware attacks: Here’s how to stay guarded: Last week Mumbai-based freelance designer Vaibhav Agrawal found something rather strange on his computer. A file, the only one in that folder, somehow had a different name. And when he tried to run it, an error message popped up. He discovered that this happened…
UIDAI files FIR against journalist for exposing flaws in Aadhaar enrolment: A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed by the Delhi police against CNN-News 18 journalist Debayan Roy, reports The Pioneer. CNN-News 18 report attempted to demonstrate that a person could get to obtain two separate Aadhaar enrollment numbers with the same set of…
Have blocked 3,000 porn websites, government tells Lok Sabha: NEW DELHI: The government informed Parliament on Wednesday that it had blocked 3,000 websites which hosted pornographic content. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, the information technology ministry said “most of the child pornographic websites are hosted from outside India”. Read More
How many Indians have Internet?: Go digital or else. Since demonetisation, the government has been sending out this stern message to citizens who are still wedded to cash transactions. But to go digital, a key prerequisite is access to the Internet. How many Indians have it? Read More