A simple classroom comment box has finally begun to chip away at the silence that has shrouded pervasive child sexual abuse in India for generations. India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development, in a 2007 study, found that more than half of all children surveyed had suffered some form of sexual abuse but had not…
Cyber crime cases in the country registered under the IT Act surged nearly 300 per cent between 2011 and 2014, according to a study, which cautioned that cyber attacks around the world are occurring at a greater frequency and intensity. The study revealed that in the past, the attacks have been mostly initiated from countries…
India’s sedition law (Section 124A) is draconian. It must go.Treasonable offences should be treated under a new law that recognises the freedom to dissent but draws a red line where dissent crosses into incitement to violence.
Internet, the global platform that connects humans and machines, was comissioned 25 years ago today. On 23 August, 1991, the public accessed World Wide Web for the first time. The credit for designing and deploying the WWW protocol go to Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
NEW DELHI: Your personal electronic devices like laptops, tablets and smart phones may soon become operable while flying in Indian airspace, instead of just remaining in airplane mode. Aviation secretary RN Choubey said on Wednesday that the government will decide on the issue of allowing Wi-Fi in Indian airspace in the next 10 days. Read…
Amit Sahay’s worst nightmare came true when someone hacked into his Facebook account and started posting pornographic content. Amit first warned his friends and then tried changing his password. But when the hacking persisted, he was forced to get a new account. Amit’s ordeal, however, is not an isolated case.
NEW DELHI: Can an arbitrary and unilateral divorce through triple talaq deprive the wife of her rights in the matrimonial home and custody of her children, a Muslim woman asked in her petition before the Supreme Court on Tuesday while challenging the constitutional validity of the process to end a marriage.
Indian government, assisted by Internet service providers, has just issued a new warning to those who visit forbidden websites in India: the offenders may get a three-year jail sentence plus a fine of Rs 3 lakh ($4,465 USD). If the warning starts to be actually employed to punish the offenders, almost every Internet user in…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release success stories of Right to Information (RTI) Act, during a programme to be held in October, to mark over 10 years of implementation of the transparency law enacted by the UPA government. The RTI Act, which was enacted in 2005, mandates time-bound reply to citizens query on…
Always believed your digital rights deserved more protection? Gauging the need for the same, 23-year-old Karthik Balakrishnan, a Bengaluru-based engineering graduate joined hands with a six member team, aiming to bring about the change, we’ve all wanted to see – with Internet Freedom Foundation, an NGO, which intends to protect the open Internet and your…