Fatwa issued on Facebook against Tripura CM Manik Sarkar: The Tripura police on Friday launched a probe over a fatwa issued against Chief Minister Manik Sarkar on Facebook, the authorities said. “After noticing the fatwa post on Thursday, an inquiry has been initiated following the registering of a criminal case at the West Agartala police station,”…
Evolving Internet in India: Most digital natives, or those born with the word cyberspace hardcoded in their brains and lives, would perhaps not realise that compared to India’s 70 years of Independence, the Internet in the country is relatively young at 31. It even celebrates its public birthday on 15 August. Read More
Allahabad University website hacked on Independence Day: The official website of the Allahabad University was hacked purportedly by Pakistan-based hackers who posted anti-national message with a clip of a burning tricolour on it. The matter came to light at around 1.30 am on Tuesday after which the officials shut down the site to take back…
Internet Of Things (IoT) and cyber risks: IoT is the inter-networking of physical objects which enable them to interact with each other through the internet. It describes a world where just about anything can be connected to communicate with each other. According to industry analysts, it is estimated that around 40-50 billion devices will be…
Towards A Digital Growth Story: Shikha Sharma In India’s BQ: India is going through a digital transformation and rapidly evolving into a digital behemoth. Being a digitally native country, it is best placed to maximise the benefits from this transformational change and charter a path of inclusive growth. The emergence of India Stack on the…
Censoring Tripura CM’s Independence Day speech is a travesty of freedom: As the country marked its 71st Independence Day in the usual pomp that accompanies everything in the Narendra Modi-ruled BJP government, as paeans to freedom and liberty and achievements were sung, bearing little or no resemblance to the sorry ground reality of the country, we…
Right to privacy crucial element of consumer rights in Digital India; here is why it is not absolute: I have written, spoken extensively about, and legally fought for a framework of legal rights for consumers and citizens—a critical issue as technology transforms and disrupts our lives, business and relationship between citizen and the government. I…
The problem with the right to privacy: The recently concluded Supreme Court hearings on Aadhaar and privacy pitted a quintessentially American idea of the “right to be left alone” against the long-standing demand of India’s poor for the “right to be acknowledged” by the state—which was the genesis of Aadhaar in the first place. Clearly,…
Privacy a Fundamental Right, But it Cannot be Absolute: BJD MP Jay Panda: BJD MP Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, who had introduced a Bill on data privacy and protection in the Parliament, has said that privacy is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution, but it would be impractical to make it absolute and we must…
Realities remain in Digital India: My exposure to Digital India was till recently a mix of government hype and the data my team routinely put together to share with our international partners. My first-hand interface began quite innocuously when the government asked us to link our Aadhaar and PAN cards and made this a requirement…