Google Maps to become smarter, can be accessed offline on weak data connection: The Indian story in 2017 seems to have been good for Google. Google Maps is seeing a 100% year-on-year growth in India now. “Thanks to larger data plans, people are not really concerned about bandwidth anymore and as a result, we see…
Dear millennials, here is why you are a soft target for cyber criminals: What does it take to stay safe on internet in the age of mass malware and ransomware attacks? If you think it’s knowledge of how internet works, you should think again. Awareness counts as much as knowledge because it has come to…
Amend IPC, appoint cybercrime coordinators: Panel to Govt: Over two years after the Supreme Court struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act as being unconstitutional, a high-level expert committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to suggest ways to tackle online hate speech, earlier dealt by Section 66A, has finally suggested…
Kashmiri Journalists and Activists Face Twitter Censorship at Indian Government’s Request: Dozens of people who have tweeted about the conflict in Indian-administered Kashmir or shown sympathy for Kashmiri independence movements online may soon be censored on Twitter, at the request of the Indian government. The US-based social media company sent notices to users explaining that the Indian government had…
Now, Districts Magistrates can’t order shutdown of internet services: Now, the district magistrates are no more authorized to clamp down on the internet services even in case of law & order problem or communal tension in their respective areas. The Union ministry of information technology has frames fresh rules and regulations in this regard and…
The Privacy Battle Over the World’s Largest Biometric Database: In 2009, with little attention from abroad, the government of India launched a new identification program that has gone on to become the largest biometric database in the world. The program, known as Aadhaar, has collected the names, addresses, phone numbers—and perhaps more significantly, fingerprints, photographs,…
Bhopal: Fake social media accounts turning out to be a ban for women: Fake profiles running on social networking sites bother us all and we try to avoid entertaining any strange person on such sites to avoid trouble. However, in a profession where we are supposed to accept friend requests of strangers, what can one…
SC pulls up Facebook, Google, WhatsApp and others for rape videos: The Supreme Court of India has pulled up Internet companies Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and WhatsApp about videos on rape, child pornography being uploaded, the Economic Times reports. The companies were required to submit affidavits regarding the number of complaints they received for the year…
Despite low connectivity, slow speeds Indians can’t imagine life without internet: Though internet penetration in India has been relatively low, this has not stopped its people from falling in love with staying connected online. Most amount of people who said they ‘can’t live without the internet,’ stemmed from India, a report by Statista said on August 29.…
LGBT rights were accepted in ancient India, Sec 377 must be repealed: Amish Tripathi: Banker-turned-writer Amish Tripathi is the latest public figure to support repealing Section 377 of the IPC. Tripathi says Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises sexual acts “against the order of the nature”, and affects the rights of LGBT…