A total of 1,377 URLs of social media websites/webpages were blocked during 2013-16 under the section 69A of IT Act, Parliament was informed. “A total of 1,377 URLs of social media websites/webpages were blocked in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 (upto October 30, 2016) under section 69A through the Committee constituted..
#PrivacyIsMyRight took the Twittersphere by storm on Thursday after the Digital Rights Foundation hosted a conference in Islamabad on Thursday.The event was called Right to Privacy in The Digital Age and the objective was to bring together civil society stakeholders to have a detailed and proactive debate.
By the end of 2016, almost half of the world’s population will be using the internet as mobile networks grow and prices fall, but their numbers will remain concentrated in the developed world, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday.
Indian cyber security experts have raised the alarm bells after reports emerged suggesting that security firm Kryptowire identified a “backdoor” spyware in Android smartphones in the US which collected sensitive personal data and transmitted it to servers in China.
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced Internet Inclusion: Advancing Solutions (IIAS) – Delhi. The 15 September event in Delhi, India, organized by the IEEE Internet Initiative, will bring together government officials and leaders from development banks, industry, the technical community, non-governmental organizations/civil-society organizations and others for…
The Centre is planning to set up a National Cyber Security Coordination Centre (NCSCC) to fully secure the country’s cyber space, Union minister for electronics and information technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday. He further said action has been initiated to set up the NCSCC to strengthen the country’s cyber security posture.
NEW DELHI, Sept 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Reports of human trafficking in India increased by 25 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, with more than 40 percent of cases involving children being bought, sold and exploited as modern day slaves, government crime data showed. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said there…
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowaltoday asserted that his government’s utmost priority is to build a Digital Highway so that every village of the state is digitally connected within the next five years. “Each rural household will be digitally connected so that people can get their needs fulfilled without having to travel to bigger cities…
The figures, released on Tuesday, showed that victims ranged from female children younger than six years old to women over 60 years, with those aged between 18 and 30 reporting the largest number of rape attacks – totalling almost 17,000. Victims knew their alleged rapists in 33,098 of the 34,651 reported rape cases, or 95.5…
KOLHAPUR: The state, which topped the chart in cyber crime cases in 2014, has slid to second position behind Uttar Pradesh according to the National Crime Records Bureau report for 2015 released on Tuesday.