Assam court issues bailable arrest warrant against Arvind Kejriwal for tweet over Narendra Modi’s education qualification: A court in Diphu has issued a bailable arrest warrant against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a defamation case arising out of his tweet on the Prime Minister’s educational qualification. Read More
Aadhaar robust; the poor have no complaints about it: Ravi Shankar Prasad: Union Minister for Law and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad tells The Hindu that nobody is being denied any benefit for not having Aadhaar and fears on that count are misplaced. Read More
Cyber fraud: Three cheated of Rs 70,000: GURUGRAM: Three cases of online fraud were registered at Sushant Lok police station on Tuesday wherein three people were allegedly duped of thousands of rupees. In all cases, the unidentified fraudsters transferred money from the victims’ accounts by taking their bank and ATM card details over the phone. Read…
Individual privacy should be protected in social media: Ker CM: Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 10 (PTI) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today said social media should respect and protect privacy and rights of individuals. Inaugurating a two-day workshop on “Social Media and Effective Governance” here, he said cyber crimes should be treated seriously. Read More
Cyber crooks are now ‘LOOTING’ bank customers by exploiting ‘loopholes’ in UPI online payments after conning them into mobile SIM upgrades: Crooks are exploiting loopholes in the Unified Payments Interface mobile application to loot bank customers, police sources have revealed – underscoring a spike in cyber crimes as India moves towards a digital economy. Read…
Women organisations condemn online abuse of rights activist, lawyer: The recent incident of issue of threat to a rights activist on Facebook has set alarm bells ringing for conscious citizens here. Coming out against the growing intolerance on the social media, a number of organisations and individuals have vehemently condemned the online abuse and threat…
Why government wanting to regulate Facebook and WhatsApp may not be a bad thing: Citing the fact that there are no regulatory norms to address privacy concerns of users of Over The Top (OTT) messaging services such as WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook etc, the government has informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 5, that it would soon…
The right to privacy: a digital disconnect: The question of a right to digital privacy never seems far from the news headlines. In the last month, for example, FBI director James Comey told the press that the American people have no right to what he called ‘absolute privacy’. Read More
INTERNET FREEDOM FORUM 2017 TO HOLD IN LAGOS, WITH OVER 30 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: The Internet Freedom Forum 2017 (IFF 2017), hosted by Paradigm Initiative, will hold from 25th to 27th April 2017 at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. The forum which has participants registered from over 30 countries will brings together stakeholders working on digital…
Are mobile transactions secure? Study says apps of 7 banks vulnerable to theft: Even as banks continue to discourage cash transactions, a study has revealed that mobile apps of seven Indian banks are vulnerable to theft of sensitive financial information, according to a report in Business Line. Vishal Raman, the India head of cyber security firm…