Journalists from the Southern African bloc were in Botswana for deliberations on the findings of an earlier survey on “Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace.” The survey conducted in June 2013 was via a partnership between the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and Privacy International (PI). Michael Phoya, the author of the report was quoted…
The Egyptian government has hired an online security firm for extensive monitoring of internet communication on various social platforms such as Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the state-owned Al Ahram newspaper reported on its website Thursday, citing a BuzzFeed News report. See Egypt, a reseller of U.S.-based Blue Coat’s products, has already started monitoring Egypt’s online communications…
In June 2012, a Google supercomputer made an artificial-intelligence breakthrough: It learned that the internet loves cats. But here’s the remarkable part: It had never been told what a cat looks like. Researchers working on the Google Brain project in the company’s X lab fed 10 million random, unlabeled images from YouTube into their massive network and instructed…
Ever since Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg landed in India, he has been expressing a desire to see how the grassroots connect and what they look online when if they manage to connect at all. This curiosity took him to a little-known village in the Alwar district of Rajasthan on Friday, which many people…
Can an entire library be put in your pocket? Most people would say yes. All you need is a mobile phone with access to the internet. But what about for the many people in the world that lack internet connectivity? The answer is still yes – at least according to Syed Karim, who explained how…
India has witnessed a massive surge in cyber crime incidents in about 10 years — from just 23 in 2004 to 72,000 last year, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here today. “In the year 2004, we had only 23 incidents (of cyber crime). Last year we had about 72,000 incidents. Media reports show as…
Tech sites including Twitter, YouTube and Facebook will be asked by the UK government this week to hand over more information about extremists posting propaganda online. A number of companies – including Google and Microsoft – will attend a meeting with Downing Street policy chiefs reports the Mail on Sunday, where they will be asked to…
The Netherlands has asked India to join in an international initiative for capacity building in the area cybercrime control to be launched in April next year. The initiative is to be launched at the fourth Global Cyberspace Conference to be hosted by Netherlands during April 2015, Uri Rosenthal, the country’s special envoy for the conference,…
Internet trolls could face up to two years in jail under new laws, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said. He told the Mail on Sunday quadrupling the current maximum six-month term showed his determination to “take a stand against a baying cyber-mob”. Mr Grayling was speaking days after TV presenter Chloe Madeley suffered online abuse, which Mr…
The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber-attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up in the wrong hands, as American business and government agencies face more intrusions. The revamp, led by Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, also marks a recognition that national security threats have broadened…