A high level delegation of the National Human Rights Commission, led by its Chairperson, Mr. Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, will be visiting Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala in connection with the commission’s Open Hearing and Camp Sitting to be held at the Government Guest House in Thycad from April 8 to 10. Mr.Justice Cyriac Joseph, Mr. Justice D. Murugesan,…
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 RightsCon, Manila, Philippines Manila, Philippines—DEF team member, Ms. Ritu Srivastava, participated in the interactive session on Right to Access the Internet: Upholding a Human Right at the RightsCon conference in Manila, Philippines. The interactive session explored interlinkages between access to internet as a basic human rights in Asia—particularly Indonesia, India, Pakistan,…
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 RightsCon, Manila, Philippines Manila, Philippines—DEF team, Mr. Shahid Ahmed and Ms. Ritu Srivastava, participated in the interactive session on Broadband For All at the RightsCon conference in Manila, Philippines. The interactive session explored how broadband services and access can be utilized by all populations across world. Mr. Shahid Ahmed offered perspective…
Court Judgment on 66 A: A victory for freedom of expression “Freedom of expression can be defined in three aspects: Discussion, Advocacy and Incitement.” This historic statement was made today by Justice Nariman, declaring the complete victory of freedom of speech in India. Today – 24 March 2015 – we got a landmark decision from…
On January 7, 2006 the then National Security Adviser, MK Narayanan, got a taste of being put under surveillance. Narayanan, a veteran of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was on a visit to a secret surveillance facility in East Delhi, run by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), India’s premier technical intelligence agency.
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Facebook has laid out in more detail what content can be posted on the site — and what updates will get users banned. The new guidelines describe exactly what kind of nudity can and can’t be shared, as well as including a whole section about “dangerous organisations”. The update provides more detail than ever on…
Facebook Inc recorded a slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014, according to its Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal. Requests for account data increased to 35,051 in the second half of 2014 from 34,946 in the first half, with requests from countries such…
The government websites host information for public dissemination and no sensitive information is hosted on such portals, Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Lok Sabha in a written reply.
“As per the guidelines of the government, the computer systems with sensitive information are isolated from Internet,” he added.
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Privacy should not be limited to headline grabbing revelations about surveillance, Snowden and Sony; these conversations need to be mainstreamed to every citizen-consumer. A few months ago, I was invited to sit on a jury looking at innovative uses of social media platforms and community-oriented apps. The awards criteria included originality, implementation, scalability and impact.…
YouTube is blocking the BBC documentary India’s Daughter thanks to a request by the government. The move is also in compliance with the order passed by the Delhi High Court, which has said that the video cannot be “uploaded, transmitted and published” since it could trigger law and order problems in the country. Clearly, the…