On January 7, 2006 the then National Security Adviser, MK Narayanan, got a taste of being put under surveillance. Narayanan, a veteran of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was on a visit to a secret surveillance facility in East Delhi, run by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), India’s premier technical intelligence agency.
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Facebook has laid out in more detail what content can be posted on the site — and what updates will get users banned. The new guidelines describe exactly what kind of nudity can and can’t be shared, as well as including a whole section about “dangerous organisations”. The update provides more detail than ever on…
Facebook Inc recorded a slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014, according to its Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal. Requests for account data increased to 35,051 in the second half of 2014 from 34,946 in the first half, with requests from countries such…
The government websites host information for public dissemination and no sensitive information is hosted on such portals, Communication and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Lok Sabha in a written reply.
“As per the guidelines of the government, the computer systems with sensitive information are isolated from Internet,” he added.
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Privacy should not be limited to headline grabbing revelations about surveillance, Snowden and Sony; these conversations need to be mainstreamed to every citizen-consumer. A few months ago, I was invited to sit on a jury looking at innovative uses of social media platforms and community-oriented apps. The awards criteria included originality, implementation, scalability and impact.…
YouTube is blocking the BBC documentary India’s Daughter thanks to a request by the government. The move is also in compliance with the order passed by the Delhi High Court, which has said that the video cannot be “uploaded, transmitted and published” since it could trigger law and order problems in the country. Clearly, the…
New rules that aim to protect the openness of the Internet will allow telecom and cable groups to prioritize and earn potentially vast income from some types of data, setting up likely clashes with regulators in the future. Telecom companies such as AT&T and Vodafone have convinced US and European regulators, finalizing so-called “net neutrality”…
The rules will mean any company providing a broadband connection has to act in the public interest and conduct business in ways that are “just and reasonable”. Reddit has been a constant supporter of net neutrality and its users lobbied the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about the ruling. Their efforts did not go unnoticed: after…
Micro-blogging site twitter has added some new reporting tools to protect users and fight against abuse on its site.
The site had already made it easier to report harassment in tweets. Now, its making it easier to report others behaviours like imitation, sharing of private information and self-harm, said reports.
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The government has given the task of identifying objectionable content on the Internet to industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed Parliament on Friday. “Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), an association of content providers, has been mandated to prepare a list of objectionable sites, particularly…