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Author Archives: wp-admin

Cybersecurity, Usability, Online Privacy, and Digital Surveillance

Cybersecurity is an interesting and important topic, one closely connected to those of online privacy and digital surveillance. Many of us know that it is difficult to keep things private on the Internet. The Internet was invented to share things with others quickly, and it excels at that job. Businesses that process transactions with customers…

May 10, 201651 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

NEUROSCIENTISTS DISCOVER WHY INTERNET PIRATES DON’T FEEL GUILTY

Entertainment industry groups often equate illegal downloading to theft, an act that many people would feel guilty about carrying out. However, millions of downloaders simply do not feel any guilt when they transfer infringing content to their machines, so why is that? Scientists in Australia think they’ve found the answer. Every month millions of people…

May 10, 201648 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Female Journalists, Called ‘Presstitutes’, Face Extreme Harassment in India

At around 2:30 AM on February 8, 2016, Indian journalist Malini Subramaniam heard the sound of metal hitting her back gate. She went outside; there were several large stones on her porch, and the rear window of her car was shattered. Immediately, Subramaniam knew why this had happened. A former head of the Red Cross…

May 10, 20167 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Google launches free public Wi-Fi service at five railway stations

BENGALURU: Google today announced the launch of its free high-speed public Wi-Fi service at Ujjain, Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati and Allahabad railway stations. This is in continuation with its project to provide high-speed public Wi-Fi service at 100 Railway stations across India by end of the year, Google said in a release. Minister of Railways Suresh…

May 10, 20161 CommentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Indian scientists have developed forensic tools to hack iPhones says Telecom Minister

FBI’s court case to force Apple to hack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c gathered so much storm that it was headline news for most part of April. The court case divided the world and United States in particular, into two lobbies. One for unlocking the shooters iPhone to help in the investigations and other group,…

May 9, 2016Leave a commentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Haji Ali Dargah has every right to ban women: Congress leader

The grand old party Congress, which is already reeling into Augusta Westland chopper controversy, raked up another one on Sunday, when one of its senior leaders hailed the ban on women in the sanctum sanctorum of Mumbai’s famous Haji Ali Dargah. Nizamuddin Rayeen, chief of Mumbai Congress’ minority, also condemned efforts of the activists seeking…

May 9, 201624 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Women rights activist Abha Singh dubs Delhi as ‘molestation capital’

New Delhi: Condemning last night’s incident of a Belgian woman allegedly being molested by an Ola cab driver, women rights activist Abha Singh on Sunday said Delhi has become the molestation capital and demanded that a criminal breach of trust should also be slapped on the company. Singh said that FIR should be registered not…

May 9, 201625 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Using data to improve social welfare schemes

Before taking over the reins of DeitY in February, Aruna Sharma was heading the department of panchayat and rural development in Madhya Pradesh. As secretary of DeitY, she is steering UIDAI and overseeing the execution of Digital India programme. In an interaction with Governance Now, she talks about the database-driven social welfare regime and uses…

May 9, 2016Leave a commentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

More than 50,000 villages to be mobile-connected by 2019: Government

New Delhi: Government plans to provide mobile connectivity in 55,669 villages by March 2019 in a phased manner. It will also commission a project to connect 8,621 villages in the north-eastern region by installing 321 mobile tower sites by September 2017, a note prepared by Department of Telecom (DoT) about the progress made during the…

May 9, 2016Leave a commentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

India is at the tipping point of a digital revolution: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Over the past two years since he became the Communications and Information Technology Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad has cleared a lot of pending work in his Ministry, even though people termed him a ‘call drop Minister’. Prasad, who will be completing two years in office on May 26, shares withBusinessLine how the telecom, postal, IT…

May 9, 201626 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin
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