Govt cyber cell to watch social media posts: The Haryana government has decided to ratchet up its cyber policing with a centre for digital investigations that it will inaugurate on Wednesday in Gurgaon. The Digital Investigation Training and Analysis Centre (Ditac) will focus exclusively on social media content, picking up anything it feels is “inflammatory”…
Privacy and data security critical as India moves to cashless economy: The government’s recent decision of demonetisation of old high denomination currency notes has come with a push for cashless economy. The transition from cash-based transactions to digital payments as a preferred alternative will take a mammoth effort for it to materialise. Read More
One item Digital India must urgently address – strengthening data security and privacy rights: The government’s demonetisation decision of November 8 has, while kicking off a noisy debate on its disruptive, positive and negative impacts, launched the country on the irreversible path of digital payments as a substitute to cash. While the pros and cons…
The privacy concerns of social media companies like Facebook are hurting investigations: Recent reports show an increasing reluctance on the part of social media companies to cooperate with investigations of posts, videos, etc. through their websites. Privacy concerns appear to be the main reason for this. The most recent case is where Facebook refused to…
Right to privacy requires encrypted messaging: Imagine, everyone on the planet has access to internet beamed from the sky; billions have ultra-fast access though 6G mobile networks. The network is everywhere. One trillion connected sensors in cars, homes, factories, streets and highways monitor everything from our vital signs to air pollution and goods moving through…
The Supreme Court Women Lawyers’ Association (SCWLA) was in the news last year when it moved the Supreme Court to be made a party in a controversial PIL filed by lawyer Kamlesh Vaswani calling for a ban on porn. This week the SCWLA kicked up a storm when in an affidavit filed in connection with…
Is the internet Facebook, Flipkart or Google, or any particular website or application? The beauty of the internet, and why it brings us so much value, is that it is a free-roam space: you can go where you want – to discussion forums, chat rooms, Reddit. You can watch documentaries and silly cat videos, or…
Do you remember how many times you have clicked “I agree” on the never-ending ‘Terms and conditions’ list for various software downloads, signups and registrations without even scrolling down to the end? Even if you have survived doing that and you are not paranoid about online security, you ought to be more careful about something…
New Delhi: Does Right to Life under the Constitution also include “right to be forgotten” online?The Delhi high court opened up the issue for legal scrutiny, and sought the response of the Centre, Google, and an online law compendium on the matter.Earlier this week, Justice Manmohan had admitted a plea filed by a Delhi banker,…
Since the Edward Snowden disclosures in 2013, which exposed a vast spying apparatus used by intelligence agencies across the globe to collect and collate the calls, text messages and social media content of citizens, privacy has become ingrained in the public consciousness. So, in this unbridled era of smart-technology, what has happened to personal privacy?…