The Netizen Report offers an international snapshot of challenges, victories, and emerging trends in Internet rights around the world. It originally appears each week on Global Voices Advocacy. Mahsa Alimardani, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Weiping Li, Hae-in Lim, James Propa, Elizabeth Rivera, and Sarah Myers West contributed to this report. Maps that label geographic areas of…
Internet trolls have become a part, an indelible part, of our millennial, tech-savvy lives. Originally known as the mythical, ugly cave-dwelling creature; a ‘troll’ has almost become the modern-equivalent of an omnipresent, hard-to-ignore monster. And nowhere more so than on Twitter.
NEW DELHI: India’s largest e-commerce website IRCTC may have escaped hack last week, however, the website is a sitting duck for even amateur hackers.
So claims Bengaluru-basedcybersecurity startup Fallible . The startup provided details on how exactly the data leak can easily happen on IRCTC website.
The Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) has suggested to the Law Commission to modify the India Succession Act, 1925 and include the transgender individuals in its provisions. Christian transgender people would now be given equal rights with cisgender men and women over ancestral property. “The entire Christian Committee agreed. We are hopeful that this will be…
The rural administrative scenario of India especially the administration of Panchyati Raj Institutions across the nation is marked by both successful innovations and practices in public service delivery as well as a number of pathetic performances. The General weakness of accountability mechanisms is an impediment to improving service delivery system for the rural poor in…
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,…