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
Don’t make GPS mandatory for handsets, ICA tells TRAI; Our Take: A government that has a propensity to make things mandatory, did just that last year: the DoT had said in April 2016 that all handsets should mandatorily have GPS by January 2018, apart from having a physical panic button on each device. Read More
Aadhaar is a legal right, but the government can suspend a citizen’s number without prior notice: Aadhaar, the biometrics-based unique identity number all Indian residents are entitled to, is being made mandatory for access to a wide range of government services. On Wednesday, the government proposed to make it mandatory for income tax filings from…
When Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp announced to turn on end-to-end encryption for its over one billion monthly active users last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed this as an “important milestone for the WhatsApp community.” It means that for WhatsApp users, every call they make and every message, photo, video, file and voice message they…
Remember the famous line from the movie Eraser, “Relax, you’ve just been erased.”? How would you like that to come true? What if every single bit of your life is suddenly deleted? A Delhi-based banker has asked for just that — the ‘right to to be forgotten’ online. Upset after details of his marital dispute,…
Privacy on the Internet is… well, let’s just say it’s complicated. In this article, I’ll analyze a few open source tools and concepts that you might use to increase privacy on the Internet for yourself. It will not be an exhaustive list of all possible avenues, nor does it pretend to ensure complete privacy even…