This has been a bad month for Indian democracy. First, there was the one-day ban on NDTV India imposed by the government of India. This sparked much protest; bowing to the pressure, the government seems to have stayed the ban — whether for the moment or for ever, it is not clear.
PANAJI: Recounting his own experiences of facing flak from political and social groups for his movies, noted filmmaker Prakash Jha shared that freedom of expression is curbed for artists in the country.
Facebook has started testing its Express WiFi, its public WiFi service in rural areas in India. According to the company’s Internet.org website, the service is currently live in India and Facebook is “working with ISPs and carriers and local entrepreneurs” to help expand the project. The development was first reported by PTI.
The programme was held in Interpol headquarter located in Lyon, France from November 14-18 where representatives from 192 countries discussed on ways in combating online child sexual abuse and guidelines on protecting the identity of young victims.
Women should not upload their photographs on social media platforms such as Facebook and Whatsapp as they could be misused, a senior police officer cautioned this Friday. “Changing social scenario invites newer offences. In future, terrorism will evolve into cyber terrorism and there also might be cyber wars between nations,” Southern Zone IG S Murugan…
NEW DELHI: Months after it received flak for allegedly violating net neutrality with Free Basics, social networking giant Facebook is now testing a new model for public Wi-Fi deployments for offering quality internet access in rural parts of the country.
In India, we have 166 million people every month active on Facebook. Of that, 95% is on mobile. We don’t break up the India revenue but globally, 84% of our business is mobile. So, while we (India) are the second largest country with 166 million monthly active users, we are the number one market in…
A total of 1,377 URLs of social media websites/webpages were blocked during 2013-16 under the section 69A of IT Act, Parliament was informed. “A total of 1,377 URLs of social media websites/webpages were blocked in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 (upto October 30, 2016) under section 69A through the Committee constituted..
The burden of shame is ever so often laid on the shoulders of women. Every day, women around the world, no matter their nationality, age, colour, face sexual harassment of some kind – whether it’s a sexist comment passed as a joke, rape, or online harassment.
#PrivacyIsMyRight took the Twittersphere by storm on Thursday after the Digital Rights Foundation hosted a conference in Islamabad on Thursday.The event was called Right to Privacy in The Digital Age and the objective was to bring together civil society stakeholders to have a detailed and proactive debate.