China has long been locked in a struggle to censor the Internet, but recent actions have show the government is taking its efforts to a whole new level. Using a virtual private networks (VPN) is a common way to get around China’s “Great Firewall,” as its sophisticated censorship apparatus is known. But on Thursday, Reuters reported that a…
The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Samsung Electronicshave signed an MOU to set up the MSME-Samsung Technical School, with an aim to establish a total of ten such schools for conducting joint training programmes across the country. Students at this facility will be provided trade-specific training on repair and troubleshooting for consumer electronics products…
2014 will be remembered as the year of the “multistakeholder model” on the Internet. NTIA demonstrated its commitment to bottom-up, multistakeholder Internet governance by committing to complete the transfer of responsibility for various technical functions — known as the IANA Functions — to the multistakeholder community. NTIA called on ICANN to convene the community to…
Sweden’s treatment of ethnic minorities will feature front and center at the second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Monday.
“[The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination] expressed concern at increasing reports of racially motivated hate speech against visible minorities, including Muslims, Afro-Swedes, Roma and Jews, particularly by some far-right politicians,” the UN report said.
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Fisheries Minister Avertano Furtado on Monday said that considering the success of initiatives like Aadhar in Goa, it will be a model state in e-governance. Furtado, who was the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations held at South Goa Collectorate building and unfurled the national flag in presence of MP Shantaram Naik, MLAs Benjamin…
China has reportedly announced that it is “upgrading” its internet censorship to block Virtual Private Network (VPN) services inside the country, a report said. The move comes as part of a government crackdown on one of the few options available to the citizens and foreigners in China to access the internet fully, reported Stuff.co.nz. Read…
India has not been kind to people who have taken the path less travelled — be it MF Hussain or Salman Rushdie and more recently Perumal Murugan. Even while we have social media that has boosted freedom of expression and creativity, there is a rider in the form of Article 66A. Given that anytime a…
Software engineer Ashwath Akirekadu can’t tell you how many times he’s logged onto GitHub over the last 15 years, but he vividly recalls the one time he couldn’t. Earlier this month while on vacation to visit family in Bangalore, India, Akirekadu tried to help a local friend who wanted to develop a mobile application. Just…
PFP Cybersecurity, a security startup, has come up with novel way to spot cyberattacks against power and manufacturing plants. By using trends in power consumption activity, rather than standard malware detection, the technology successfully spotted Stuxnetin an experimental network before the malware went into a disastrous spree. PFP Cybersecurity, which officially launches on Monday and was…
For the last several months, cybersecurity experts have been warning Verizon Wireless that it was putting the privacy of its customers at risk. The computer codes the company uses to tag and follow its mobile subscribers around the Web, they said, could make those consumers vulnerable to covert tracking and profiling. It looks as if…